Six people including the driver of a car targeting the Dutch royal family were killed as the car swerved through a crowd of people striking a monument during a Queen's Day holiday parade yesterday.
The Guardian reports: "The suspect, a 38-year-old man identified by Dutch media as KarstTates, had been in a critical condition since the attack during the Netherlands' Queen's Day holiday yesterday. Tatestold one of the first police officers to rush to his car that theattack was aimed at the royal family, prosecutor Ludo Goossens said. Neighboursin the village of Huissen told Dutch media he had been fired from hisjob as a security guard and was facing eviction from his home. Butpolice said he had no history of mental illness or criminal record. Twelveother people were hurt when Tates rammed his car through policebarricades and into onlookers towards an open-topped bus carrying QueenBeatrix. The car ploughed through police cordons metres away from theroyal bus before crashing into a stone monument to the late QueenWilhelmina."
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