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Suspect is a 53 -year -old British man and has been arrested. Accident will not have been terrorism, but put 27 injured in the hospital and a child in serious condition.
A car turned the celebration night of this Monday into a nightmare. In Liverpool, the thousands of football team supporters celebrated the victory at Premiere League when a car ran over the crowd.
The incident made about 50 injured, some rescued on site and others transported to the hospital. 4 children were injured, one in serious condition.
At a press conference, Deputy Chief of Merseyside Police Jenny Sims said the running over is not being treated by the authorities as terrorism, but as an isolated incident.
David Kitchen, from the Northwest Ambulance Service, indicated thatand 27 injured were taken to several Liverpool hospitalstwo of them in serious condition.
“Unfortunately, four of the injured are children,” one of them in serious condition, said the same responsible.
A bicycle paramedic was also hit, but was not seriously injured.
A new video from Liverpool today shows a driver, frustrated by heavy traffic, facing an attack on his car by passersby, leading to what seems like a total meltdown. Could this be a case of extreme road rage rather than a terror attack?
– Geoff (@furbeti)
According to Jenny Sims, about 20 minor injuries were assisted at the scene. The case was not treated as terrorism.
The individual detained by running over is a 53 -year -old British citizen, police announced. “We can confirm that the detained man is a 53 -year -old British white man, From the Liverpool zone, ”said a Merseyside police spokesman quoted by the BBC, at a time when rumors on social networks that the presumed striker was an Islamic terrorist.
In social networks, it is commented on a possible case of “road rage”, where the driver will have been with traffic. “We ask people who do not speculate about the circumstances of Tonight’s incident on Water Street,” in the city center of Liverpool, however warns the same source.
Les Winsper, 55, witnessed the incident and told: “People started hitting the car’s windows. Then the windows departed and he got into panic and accelerated. Then he ran over someone, that person flew over the air and he ran over the rest of the people.
Winsper’s friend Craig Steward, 52, described a “chaos” with “people crying, children crying, shaking“And comments,“ I think he ran over someone by mistake and then accelerated. It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s something you see on television. This is why all children are crying because they witnessed everything. I’m traumatized“.
