LONDON: The taxi explosion outside the Liverpool woman’s hospital at the commemoration of the week was a terrorist attack where a man suicide bombed alone, the British police confirmed Monday.
The UK terror threat rate on Monday was severely raised, which meant a terror attack was very possible.
Video recording shows a taxi exploded after pulling in front of the hospital reception and the driver, named David Perry (45), run out of car while the black feather smoke billowed seconds before burning.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and put out the fire.
British media reported that dead passengers were a Middle East Heritage man.
Perry was originally hospitalized for injury and burns but since it was released.
A local fundraising has so far collected £ 20,000 (rs 20 lakh) for him and Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson praised him because “diverting what could be a truly terrible disaster in the hospital”, who specializes in the health of women and babies.
Constable Russ Jackson’s head, Counter-terrorism North West, said the suicide bomber was “asked to be taken to the Liverpool woman hospital”, after calling a 10-minute taxi.
But British media speculates the target intended may have become a Sunday reminder service in the Liverpool Cathedral, a 20-minute walk from the hospital.
At least 2,000 military, veteran and relatives who are falling, together with civilian officials, have gathered in the cathedral on Sundays for annual daily warning services.
The taxi exploded outside the hospital at 10:55 a.m., just a minute before the annual silence of two minutes to respect the fall.
“This is treated as an ignition of explosives,” Jackson said.
The question “shows that the device is brought into a taxi by passengers.
Our questions show that improvised explosive devices have been produced and our assumption so far is that this is built by passengers in a taxi.
We believe we know the identity of passengers,” he added.
The question led the officers to two addresses in Liverpool where four arrests were made based on terrorist laws.
The four men were in their 20s and were questioned by counter-terrorism officers, while searches occurred at their address and the location where the taxi was praised, where “important items were found”, Jackson said.
“It is not clear what motivation for this incident from the hospital and ignition occurred shortly before 11 in the morning.
This is the line of investigations that we pursue,” Jackson added.
This attack came after MP David Amess was stabbed to death in his election operation on October 15.