Three children and an adult killed after car hits school cycling group in southern Netherlands

A car struck a group of cyclists on a provincial road near the village of Vogelwaarde in the southern Netherlands, killing three children and an adult and injuring four other children. The cyclists were part of a school camping trip involving 14 pupils and two chaperones from an elementary school in nearby Axel. Emergency services said two children and the adult died at the scene, while four children were taken to hospitals in the Netherlands and Belgium; one of the injured children later died in a Rotterdam hospital. Police detained a 19-year-old man while investigating the incident, though they have not confirmed whether he was the driver. The crash occurred on a road that runs between farmland, an area where dedicated cycle lanes are uncommon. Such multi-victim collisions involving cyclists are rare in the Netherlands, where cycling is a routine part of daily life.