Official connected Liverpool car ramming enactment
A antheral held for driving into Liverpool shot fans celebrating their club's Premier League triumph connected Monday is being held connected suspicion of attempted murder, unsafe driving and driving aft taking drugs, constabulary successful the northwest England metropolis said Tuesday. Eleven radical remained hospitalized successful unchangeable information a time aft much than 50 were injured successful the incident.
Police said precise rapidly aft the incidental connected Liverpool's crowed Water Street that they had arrested a White 53-year-old antheral from the Liverpool area. He had been driving the minivan that followed an ambulance done a lifted downtown road-block and past plowed into the crowd, Merseyside constabulary said.
The constabulary said the antheral was capable to travel the ambulance done the roadblock arsenic it raced to respond to a study of idiosyncratic having a suspected bosom attack. They said determination had been nary quality to pass of the incident, and that it was not being treated arsenic suspected terrorism.
Emergency vehicles and unit are seen astir a minivan that was driven into a assemblage successful cardinal Liverpool, nothern England, during a parade, May 26, 2025.
The constabulary stressed that the probe remained ongoing, and they asked the nationalist to not stock distressing images online oregon dispersed misinformation.
The fishy has not been identified by the police. He remained successful custody connected Tuesday, pending immoderate ceremonial charges being filed.
Police were called to the country successful cardinal Liverpool, much than 200 miles northwest of London, astatine astir 1 p.m. ET (6 p.m. section time) connected Monday pursuing reports of a car colliding with "a fig of pedestrians," the Merseyside Police initially said connected societal media.
David Kitchen of the North West Ambulance Service said Monday that 27 patients were taken to the infirmary successful total, including 4 children. Three of the victims were treated for superior injuries, Kitchen said.
First responders rescued 3 adults and a kid who were recovered trapped nether a vehicle, according to Merseyside Fire Chief Nick Searle.
Tens of thousands of fans had gathered for the Monday day parade, lining the streets to ticker Liverpool's players show the Premier League trophy arsenic they were driven dilatory past connected an open-top bus, The Associated Press reported. Liverpool's past league rubric came successful 2020, but pandemic restrictions prevented a solemnisation astatine the time.
Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's overseas editor, based successful the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, anterior to which helium worked for The Associated Press successful Washington, D.C., and London.
Kiki Intarasuwan and Nicole Brown Chau contributed to this report.
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