A day which started out as a happy and fun day turned into a drama.

Warning: This blog contains pictures of people who are badly injured if that's not your thing then please look away!!!

This Queensday started out like any other Queensday I can remember. I celebrated it with my parents with going into the town looking at some booths, listening to some live music and going to the fair. It was just another fun Queensday, until one of my aunts called my father to let him know that something at happened in Apeldoorn. Every Queensday the Queen and the rest of the royal family visit a town, play some fun old Dutch games ect. This year thattown was Apeldoorn. We rush toward my aunt's home (because she lives close by where we were) to see what had really happened. Then we see on TV that a man in his black car drove through the cordoning off operation and crashes into a monument, just a few feet away from the bus where the royal family was in.

In order to do that however he had to drive though the crowd of people that where there to see the royal family. You could just see the people flying though the air. There were 17 injured, from witch four have already died and five more are badly injured. The driver himself is still alive, though he is badly injured, and in police custody. The Queen herself has expressed her regret for what happened and to tell that she feels for the victims and their loved ones!

Shocked faces from the Royal family who saw it all happen.

There was the big question for awhile whether this was an accident or an attack on the royal family. But no we are sure enough to say that the latter was true. What everyone here in the Netherlands now wants to know is the reason why he did, but sadly there is nothing known about that yet.

Everyone is very shocked, myself included because you just don't expect anything like this at all! And since nothing like this has happened before, you don't even consider it.

All the celebrations in Apeldoorn were cancelled, and a few other places followed this. Other places decide to continue to celebrate, like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is pretty much the place to be on Queensday and a lot of people go there to celebrate it, because there is a free concert there were a lot of famous singers perform. They did have their reason for continuing and they were silent for a minute to think about the victims and their loved ones. And trust me it's quite an impressive site to see about 200 thousand people completely silent.

Anyway everyone is still pretty much in shock, and hopefully they will find out why that men did it soon.

I think that it's safe to say that Queensday is never going to be the same again!

As I am typing this; I just heard that there are now 5 people dead. We don't know yet wetter it's the driver ( who is in critical condition) or someone else.

My heart goes out to all the victims and their loved ones!

Here's a link with more pictures, and some 'live' footage from this terrible attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD0syfdj1e0

Edit: The offender died last night in the hospital which means that there are now 6 dead by this terrible attack. Now we may never know for sure why he did it, but since he just recently lost his job, the greatest guess is that he was angry about the economic crisis.

There are now seven dead and eight still injured, from witch one of them is in critical condition.

Huge Hugs!