Six killed in Netherlands as truck rolls off road into neighbourhood party

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Six folks died in an incident when a truck rolled right into a neighbourhood celebration within the city of Nieuw Beijerland within the south of the Netherlands on Saturday night, Dutch police stated on Sunday.

Seven different folks have been in hospital on Sunday morning with accidents as a result of incident, with one in every of them in crucial situation, police stated.

The incident occurred round 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) round 30 km (19 miles) south of Rotterdam, when a heavy truck rolled off a dyke right into a discipline the place neighbours have been holding a celebration.

It was nonetheless unclear what had induced the accident, police stated.

The motive force of the truck, a 46-year outdated man from Spain, was detained as he was suspected of getting induced a deadly automobile accident.

Police stated there have been no indicators of alcohol abuse by the motive force, however supplied no additional particulars on the doable reason behind the incident.

A spokesman for the person’s employer, Spanish transport firm El Mosca, advised Spanish newspaper La Verdad that the motive force went off the highway working alongside the dyke as he tried to stop a collision with a van.

Police didn’t verify this report, however did say they’d questioned a driver of a white van as a witness.

(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Enhancing by Edmund Blair and Susan Fenton)