Police: 2 Confirmed Dead After Truck Drives Into Barbecue

Emergency services operate at the scene of an accident after a lorry drove off a dike into a neighborhood party, killing at least two attendees and injuring several others, in Nieuw-Beijerland, Netherlands, on Aug. 27, 2022. STR/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—A truck drove off a Dutch dike and slammed into a neighborhood barbecue in a village Saturday evening, and police said two people were confirmed killed and multiple people were injured.

Police were trying to determine why the truck left the road in the village of Nieuw-Beijerland just south of Rotterdam and careered down the side of a dike.