De Naald Attack: 8th Person Dies
An eighth person has died in the wake of the assassination attempt on the Dutch Royal Family. (See here for full details on the attack.) De Naald (in English The Needle ), is the obelisk monument in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn that became the final resting place for Karst Tates' automobile. A woman died of her injuries more than a week after a man plowed his car into a crowd during a parade, becoming the seventh victim of a failed attack (#8 when the attacker is counted) on the Dutch royal family, authorities said Saturday, May 9, 2009. The 46-year-old woman, whose identity was not released, was among about a dozen people struck down in the April 30 attack. Apeldoorn municipality spokesman Toon Schuiling said she died Friday night, May 8, 2009, in a hospital, the same evening as more than 1,000 people gathered for a memorial service. Five bystanders died on the day of the April 30 attack near Het Loo palace in Apeldoorn and another died the following day. The car's driver als...