Man who attacked Dutch royals dies

The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed five in an attempt to attack the Dutch royal family died.

The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed five in an attempt to attack the Dutch royal family died early on Friday of his injuries,prosecutors said.

The 38-year-old suspect,identified by Dutch media as Karst Tates,had been in critical condition since the attack that marred the Netherlands’ Queen’s Day holiday on Thursday.

Twelve other people were hurt when Tates rammed his car through police barricades toward an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix and several other members of the royal family.

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Tates told one of the first police officers to rush to his car that the attack was aimed at the royal family,prosecutor Ludo Goossens said on Thursday. But the motive was unclear.

Prosecutors said Tates’ death ended the criminal investigation against him,but that they would continue to investigate whether he acted alone. Prosecutors have not released his identity,in line with Dutch privacy laws.

“So far there are no indications” anybody else was involved,prosecutors said in a statement.

Police who searched Tates’ house “found no weapons,explosives or indications of other suspects,” prosecutors said.

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Tates’ failed attack on the immensely popular royal family played out live on nationwide television during coverage of the queen’s bus trip to her palace Het Loo in the eastern city of Apeldoorn.

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