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Three British men have been killed and two others seriously injured in a car crash in Holland, after they allegedly raided a cash machine. | Three British men have been killed and two others seriously injured in a car crash in Holland, after they allegedly raided a cash machine. |
Two men from Liverpool, aged 21 and 27, and a 25-year-old man from London were killed when their car hit the central reservation of the A12 near Utrecht. | |
Two other men, aged 25 and 28, and from Liverpool, suffered serious injuries in the crash on Friday night. | Two other men, aged 25 and 28, and from Liverpool, suffered serious injuries in the crash on Friday night. |
They have been arrested on suspicion of burglary, Dutch police said. | They have been arrested on suspicion of burglary, Dutch police said. |
A police spokesman for Gelderland Midden police force said officers had received reports of a cash machine raid at a supermarket in the town of Driel. | |
Died in hospital | |
Police believed the three dead men were involved in the raid, he said. | |
He said by the time police arrived at the cash machine the suspects had fled. About 20 minutes later, officers received a report of a car crash on the A12 in Maarsbergen. | |
When they attended the scene, they found five men in the car, which contained a substantial amount of cash covered in a security dye. | |
The 25-year-old from London was pronounced dead at the scene and the two men from Liverpool died in hospital over the weekend, the spokesman confirmed. |