Six people died in an incident where a truck rolled into a neighbourhood party in the town of Nieuw Beijerland in the South of the Netherlands on Saturday evening, Dutch police say.
Seven other people were in hospital on Sunday morning with injuries due to the incident, with one of them in critical condition, police said.
The incident happened around 18:00 (1600 GMT) around 30 km (19 miles) South of Rotterdam, when a heavy truck rolled off a dyke into a field where neighbours were holding a party.
It was still unclear what had caused the accident, say police.
Truck driver detained
The driver of the truck, a 46-year-old man from Spain, was detained as he was suspected of having caused a fatal car accident.
Police say there were no signs of alcohol abuse by the driver but provided no further details on the possible cause of the incident.
A spokesperson for the man’s employer, Spanish transport company El Mosca, told the Spanish newspaper La Verdad that the driver went off the road running along the dyke as he tried to prevent a collision with a van.
Police did not confirm this report, but say they had questioned the driver of a white van as a witness.
