This is not my country..
I cannot believe this happened.
Today is Queens Day, we celebrate the Queen's birthday. Basically it is one big party throughout the country, with music in the streets and all.
The royal family was visiting Apeldoorn and as every year, there were a lot of people watching them ride by in an open-top bus. Out of nowhere, a car careered into the crowd of people, trying to go for that bus. He then hit a monument called 'de naald' (the needle).
Since the celebration was live on tv, I saw this live. I saw a small black car breaking through the barriers with great speed, hitting all these people, I saw people literally flying around after the car had hit them. Panic, screams, blood, crying children. I saw awful, awful pictures of a little girl after she was hit.
Latest news is there are 17 injured, 4 died. The man responsible did it on purpose, he told the police.
I have been watching the news all afternoon and I still can't believe it. This is not my country, this is not where I live. We don't have terrorist attacks (because that's what they think it was), we don't have people deliberately driving into a crowd, trying to kill the royal family. My God.
(cnn news here)
Edit: five dead, and the suspect is said to be braindead. Three children (16,15 and 9) are severely hurt. It's a sad day.
Edit 2: Another victim passed away, and the guy who did it died last night. Six innocent lives..
Today is Queens Day, we celebrate the Queen's birthday. Basically it is one big party throughout the country, with music in the streets and all.
The royal family was visiting Apeldoorn and as every year, there were a lot of people watching them ride by in an open-top bus. Out of nowhere, a car careered into the crowd of people, trying to go for that bus. He then hit a monument called 'de naald' (the needle).
Since the celebration was live on tv, I saw this live. I saw a small black car breaking through the barriers with great speed, hitting all these people, I saw people literally flying around after the car had hit them. Panic, screams, blood, crying children. I saw awful, awful pictures of a little girl after she was hit.
Latest news is there are 17 injured, 4 died. The man responsible did it on purpose, he told the police.
I have been watching the news all afternoon and I still can't believe it. This is not my country, this is not where I live. We don't have terrorist attacks (because that's what they think it was), we don't have people deliberately driving into a crowd, trying to kill the royal family. My God.
(cnn news here)
Edit: five dead, and the suspect is said to be braindead. Three children (16,15 and 9) are severely hurt. It's a sad day.
Edit 2: Another victim passed away, and the guy who did it died last night. Six innocent lives..