Liverpool Taxi explosion: MI5 and police continue to investigate outside hospital

Security services are assisting police investigating the explosion of a taxi at a hospital in Liverpool which killed the passenger and injured the driver on Remembrance Sunday.

Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after the blast involving the taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10.59am, around a mile away from Liverpool Cathedral where a large Remembrance service was taking place.

The three men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were detained in the nearby Kensington area of the city, while residents were evacuated as armed police were seen in Rutland Avenue, in the Sefton Park area, until the early hours of the morning.

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