EKO HOT BLOG reports that Police in the United Kingdom has detained three young men after a vehicle explosion near a Liverpool hospital killed one person and wounded another.
“Officers in Merseyside have detained three individuals — aged 29, 26 and 21 — in the Kensington area of Liverpool under the Terrorism Act,” Great Manchester Police said in a tweet on Sunday.
Local police and counter-terrorism officers are probing the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital in northwest England on Sunday.
Authorities are keeping “an open mind as to what caused the explosion,” an earlier police statement said.
“So far we understand that the car involved was a taxi which pulled up at the hospital shortly before the explosion occurred,” according to the statement.
The injured person is being treated in hospital and has not suffered life-threatening injuries, police said. The incident occurred at about 11 a.m. local time (6 a.m. ET).
Members of the public are urged to remain calm but vigilant, the police statement added. Visiting access to the hospital has been restricted, according to a notice on the hospital’s website.
The mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, tweeted that news of the explosion was “unsettling and upsetting.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also tweeted, “My thoughts are with all those affected by the awful incident in Liverpool today. I want to thank the emergency services for their quick response and professionalism, and the police for their ongoing work on the investigation.”
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