Three men killed in Dutch crash

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Police spokesman Renalt Vanderleeden said officers were not in pursuit when the car crashed

Three British men have been killed and two others seriously injured in a car crash in The Netherlands, 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.

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.

Security dye

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.