Liverpool: Everything we know about the terror attack that shocked Merseyside
Suspected terrorist Emad Al Swealmeen blew himself up with a homemade bomb outside a maternity hospital in Liverpool on Sunday. The incident has been declared a terrorist attack by police. Here is everything we know so far: – The explosion happened inside a taxi outside the Women’s Hospital in Liverpool moments before 11am on Remembrance Sunday. – Emergency services were on the scene within minutes and Al Swealmeen, 32, the passenger in the taxi, was pronounced dead. – The driver of the taxi, named locally as David Perry, was injured but managed to escape and has since been released from hospital. – He picked up Al Swealmeen in the Rutland Avenue area of Liverpool, roughly a 10-minute drive from Liverpool Women’s Hospital, said Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, from Counter Terrorism Policing North West. Continue reading: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/liverpool-explosion-latest-everything-we-know-b966353.html Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RQon_YwCnp_LbPtEwW65w?sub_confirmation=1
