LIVERPOOL: A automotive ploughed into massive crowds of Liverpool followers within the metropolis centre throughout their aspect’s Premier League title celebrations on Monday (Could 26), with police saying a person has been arrested.
“What I can let you know is that we imagine this to be an remoted incident, and we’re not at the moment searching for anybody else in relation to it,” Jennifer Sims, assistant chief constable of Merseyside Police, mentioned at a press convention.
“The incident just isn’t being handled as terrorism,” she added.
She mentioned a 53-year-old white British man who had been arrested shortly after the collision was believed to be the driving force.
The UK ambulance service mentioned 20 individuals have been handled for minor accidents whereas 27 have been taken to hospital with two sustaining severe accidents.
The police mentioned they responded to reviews {that a} automotive had hit a “variety of pedestrians” shortly after the group’s open-top coach carrying gamers and training employees drove by town centre, the place they have been greeted by tens of hundreds of followers.
Tens of hundreds of individuals had turned out in torrential rain for the jubilant celebrations to see the northwest English aspect’s victory parade, involving gamers on an open-topped bus and fireworks.
The bus carrying the group had handed by Water Avenue simply minutes earlier than the automotive bumped into the group, witnesses informed media.
“It was extraordinarily quick,” mentioned Harry Rashid, 48, from Solihull, close to Birmingham, central England, who was on the parade together with his spouse and two younger daughters.
“Initially we simply heard the pop, pop, pop of individuals simply being knocked off the bonnet of the automotive,” he informed reporters.
“It was horrible and you could possibly hear the bumps as he was going over the individuals.”
