UK: 3 detained in car blast outside Liverpool hospital – Times of India

LONDON: Britain’s counter-terrorism police on Sunday detained three people in connection with an explosion at a city hospital. liverpool In which one person was killed and another was injured.
NS press association The report said counter-terrorism police said three people, aged between 21 and 29, were taken into custody in the Kensington area of ​​the city.
Police were called on Sunday morning on information of an explosion in a taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Police said the blast was not declared a terrorist attack, but counter-terrorism police were leading the investigation and the men were taken into custody. terrorism act,
“As far as we understand, the car involved was a taxi, which was pulled over to the hospital shortly before the explosion,” Merseyside Police said in a statement. “Work is still going on to establish what happened and it may take some time for us to be in a position to confirm anything.’
The male passenger of the car died and the driver was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police said they were keeping an ‘open mind’ about the cause of the blast.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital said it immediately restricted commuting access and moved patients to other hospitals “where possible” until further notice.
Fire services said they quickly put out the fire in the car, and that one person had left the car before the fire started “to the extent it had developed”.

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