What we know about the Liverpool parade incident

A 53-year-old antheral has been arrested aft a car deed a fig of pedestrians successful Liverpool metropolis centre during the Premier League triumph parade.

Eyewitnesses and videos shared connected societal media person shown the conveyance driving done a assemblage arsenic radical scatter.

Police accidental they are not treating the incidental arsenic terror-related.

Details are inactive emerging, but here's what we cognize truthful far.

A car collided with a fig of pedestrians connected Water Street conscionable aft 18:00, Merseyside Police said.

In a connection the unit said: "We were contacted astatine conscionable aft 18:00 today, Monday 26 May, pursuing reports a car had been successful collision with a fig of pedestrians connected Water Street.

"The car stopped astatine the country and a antheral has been detained."

Police aboriginal said a 53-year-old achromatic British antheral from the Liverpool country had been arrested and that helium was believed to beryllium the driver.

The incidental is not being treated arsenic terror-related and is believed to beryllium isolated, constabulary said.

The ambulance work said 27 radical had been taken to infirmary for treatment, with two, including 1 child, earnestly injured.

Another 20 radical were treated for injuries astatine the scene.

Four children were among the injured.

Four radical including a kid were lifted from beneath the car, Merseyside main occurrence Nick Searle said.

Video from the country shows the car ploughing into the a radical of radical past speeding up earlier coming to a halt.

Other footage shows radical striking the car aft it stopped, with the backmost windscreen shattered.

Numerous exigency work vehicles attended the scene.

One eyewitness, BBC newsman Matt Cole, described seeing a car coming done the assemblage that "just wasn't stopping".

He said it was being chased by a radical of men "who were trying to bang connected the broadside of it and propulsion things astatine it".

He estimated the car was travelling astatine "more than 20 [mph]".

He said his archetypal presumption was that the operator conscionable wanted to "barge done crowds due to the fact that they didn't privation to wait".

Another witness, Matthew O'Carroll, 28, from Runcorn, saw the car approaching the apical of Water Street.

He said the conveyance had been going astatine a "decent" velocity and that the operator had been beeping arsenic helium went done the crowd.

Water Street is adjacent the Strand, wherever moments earlier the incidental occurred Liverpool FC had paraded the Premier League trophy from the apical of a bus.

Thousands of radical had travel retired to observe the team's victory. The incidental happened astir a mile earlier the parade's finishing point.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is being kept updated connected the latest developments.

He posted connected X: "The scenes successful Liverpool are appalling - my thoughts are with each those injured oregon affected.

"I privation to convey the constabulary and exigency services for their swift and ongoing effect to this shocking incident."

Conservative person Kemi Badenoch said the pictures were "deeply worrying".

"My thoughts are with each those affected, and the exigency services arsenic they respond to what appears a horrific incident," she said.

Liverpool FC said it was successful interaction with the constabulary and its "thoughts and prayers are with those who person been affected by this superior incident", portion rivals Everton FC echoed the sentiment.

Liverpool said successful a statement: "Our thoughts and prayers are with those who person been affected by this superior incident. We volition proceed to connection our afloat enactment to the exigency services and section authorities who are dealing with this incident."

Liverpool's unit celebrations are understood to person been postponed due to the fact that of the incident.

The Premier League has besides released a statement, saying "everyone astatine the Premier League is shocked by the appalling events successful Liverpool this evening, and our heartfelt thoughts spell retired to each those injured and affected.

"We person been successful interaction with Liverpool FC and person offered our afloat enactment pursuing this superior incident."

Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotherham told the BBC a time of "absolute celebration" had been "overshadowed" by the incident. He urged the nationalist to debar speculation portion constabulary proceed their investigation.