- Nearly 50 people injured including 27 hospitalized.
- Fans massaged in Liverpool to celebrate the title gain.
- Police say incident is not assumed to be terrorism.
A car plowed into a wealth of Liverpool fans under a parade celebrating their sides Premier League football title on Monday, hospitalized 27 people, with two seriously injured, but police said they didn’t think the incident was terror related.
Police said they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area,” as they thought was the driver of the vehicle who hit a large group of supporters celebrating in the city in northwestern England.
Twenty people were treated on stage. Ambulance -Employees said of the 27 taken to the hospital four were children. A child and an adult were in a serious condition. Four people caught during the vehicle had to be released by firefighters.
Videos on social media showed people thrown in the air as the car hit the spectators.
When the car stopped, angry fans converted on it and began to crush the windows as police officers intervened to prevent them from reaching the driver.
“We believe this is an isolated incident and we are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it. The incident is not treated as terrorism,” the temporary vice -chief constable Jenny Sims told journalists.
With most people from work to Spring Bank Holiday, hundreds of thousands of fans gathered to see the Liverpool team and its staff travel through the city center on an open bus with the Premier League trophy.
An eyewitness said the collision happened approx. 10 minutes after the bus carried the Liverpool team had passed by, British Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The incident “threw a very dark shadow over what had been a happy day,” Liverpool’s city council leader Liam Robinson said on social media.
In the wake, a Reuters photographer saw emergency services that carry victims of stretcher of ambulances and dirt spread on the road.
Police were unusually quick to give a description of the man they arrested.
Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent of the London Metropolitan Police, the BBC told this was an effort to cool down speculation on social media that the episode was an Islamist attack.
The same police force monitored the answer to the murder of three young girls in the nearby town of Southport last year, an incident that triggered days of rebellion, driven by speculation online about the striker’s identity.
An eyewitness to Monday’s incident giving her name when Chelsea told the BBC radio that people packed on the streets was only warned about the danger of screaming from the crowd. It allowed some to jump out of the way as the driver showed no sign of subsiding.
“With the upside, it was the only reason we looked up, and fortunately looked up and managed to jump out (off) the way in time,” the woman said.
Liverpool last won the trophy under the covid pandemic as the celebrations were not allowed due to lockdowns.
A Reuters witness said that before the incident there was a disturbance in the city center, where the parade had to pass, with overfilling and spectators confused by a lack of signage about street closures or wherever they should go.
“My thoughts are with all the wounded or affected,” Prime Minister Keir Stormer said at X, called the scenes “shaking” and said he was updated about the events.
The team said at X that it was in direct contact with the police. “Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by this serious incident,” said Liverpool FC.
