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DOZENS of people were injured in a huge stampede at a Dutch Remembrance Day ceremony when a man caused mass panic by shouting during a two minute silence.
The country's monarch, Queen Beatrix, was attending the service and had to be rushed from the scene by security forces as the crowd tried to flee
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Some people were pushed to the ground and parents were seen frantically trying to get their children to safety during the chaos at Amsterdam's Dam Square last night.
Around 60 people suffered injuries during the incident.
Queen Beatrix returned to the ceremony, honouring World War Two victims, a few minutes later and the service continued.
Police arrested a "disturbed" man, identified as a 39-year-old Amsterdam resident with a long history of drugs-related offences.
The scare came a year after the monarch and her family were targeted in an assassination attempt by an unemployed recluse during the annual Queen's Day national holiday.
A speeding car mowed down several people and then came within a few metres of the open-top bus taking Queen Beatrix and her family down a parade route.
It smashed into a stone monument as the monarch looked on in horror.
Police commissioner Bernard Welten said officers would review the latest incident carefully before deciding whether to take further measures or act differently in the future.
But Mayor Lodewijk Asscher claimed that even metal detectors and frisking visitors probably would not have prevented the incident
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