A car rammed into a packed crowd celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title victory on Monday leaving 27 people hospitalised, but police said they were ruling out terrorism.
“We believe this to be an isolated incident, and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it,” Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims told a press conference, adding a 53-year-old white British man had been arrested.
“The incident is not being treated as terrorism,” she added.
Some 27 football fans were hospitalised, including two who were seriously injured, after a dark-coloured vehicle swerved through the huge crowds hitting people in its path, minutes after the players’ open-topped bus passed by.
Four children were among those hurt, including one seriously.
Tens of thousands of people had turned out in torrential rain for what should have been jubilant celebrations to see the northwest English side’s victory parade.
The bus carrying the team had passed by Water Street just minutes before the car ran into the crowd, witnesses said. বিস্তারিত