Multiple people hit after minivan plows into crowd of celebrating Liverpool soccer fans

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 26, 2025 4:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 16 minutes ago

A 53-year-old British antheral plowed his minivan into a assemblage of Liverpool shot fans who were astatine a parade celebrating the metropolis team's Premier League title connected Monday and was arrested, constabulary said. 

There was nary contiguous connection from authorities connected however galore radical were injured. An aerial ambulance and different exigency vehicles swarmed the country to respond to reports that aggregate pedestrians had been hit. 

"It was highly fast," said Harry Rashid, who was astatine the parade with his woman and 2 young daughters and was just several feet distant from the vehicle when the incidental happened. "Initially, we conscionable heard the pop, pop, popular of radical conscionable being knocked disconnected the bonnet of a car."

Police in Liverpool asked people not to stock distressing contented of the incidental online, but to send footage oregon accusation straight to instrumentality enforcement. 

"We would inquire radical not to speculate connected the circumstances surrounding tonight's incidental connected Water Street successful Liverpool metropolis centre," work a police statement.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said helium was being updated connected the concern and thanked constabulary for their speedy response. 

"The scenes successful Liverpool are appalling — my thoughts are with each those injured oregon affected," Starmer said.

Tens of thousands of Liverpool fans had travel out to observe the squad winning the Premier League this play for a record-tying 20th top-flight title. Liverpool's past league rubric came successful 2020, but supporters were denied the accidental to publically observe that trophy owed to COVID-19 restrictions successful spot astatine the time.

Dancing fans waving scarves and flags braved bedewed upwind to enactment the streets and ascent up postulation lights to get a presumption of Liverpool's players who were atop 2 buses bearing the words "Ours Again."

'People connected the ground'

The hours-long procession — surrounded by a heavy furniture of constabulary and information — crawled on a 16-kilometre route and done a oversea of reddish fume and rain. Fireworks exploded from the Royal Liver Building successful the bosom of the metropolis to seemingly awesome the extremity of the parade.

The squad issued a abbreviated statement saying its thoughts and prayers were with those affected. The Premier League issued a akin statement expressing daze astatine the "appalling events successful Liverpool."

Rashid said aft the car rammed its archetypal victims, it came to a halt and the assemblage charged the conveyance and began smashing windows.

"But past helium enactment his ft down again and conscionable plowed done the remainder of them, helium conscionable kept going," Rashid said. "It was horrible. And you could perceive the bumps arsenic helium was going implicit the people."

Rashid said it looked deliberate and helium was successful daze and disbelief.

"My girl started screaming and determination were radical connected the ground," helium said. "They were conscionable guiltless people, conscionable fans going to bask the parade."