The explosion of a taxi next to a Liverpool hospital was a “terrorist incident”, according to British police.

The explosion of a taxi that occurred this Sunday outside a hospital in Liverpool (northwest of England), in which a man died and another was injured, has been declared a terrorist act, as confirmed on Monday by the Merseyside police, who have arrested a fourth suspect.

In a press conference to give more details of the event, the deputy inspector of the Antiterrorist Unit of the North West Police Force, Russ Jackson, also revealed that the explosion was caused, according to his investigations, by “An improvised homemade device worn by the taxi passenger” who died.

“Although the motivation is not yet understood, taking into account all the circumstances, it has been declared a terrorist incident and the antiterrorist police continue with the investigation, which will continue to focus on understanding how the explosive was manufactured, the motivation for what happened and if there is any someone else involved “, said.

To the three arrests made yesterday in the area of Kensington from the aforementioned city – three men aged 21, 26 and 29 – a fourth arrest of a new suspect is added today, who will be questioned later, he said.

As found out so far, the taxi driver, who was injured in the explosion, picked up the passenger at a location about ten minutes from the Women’s Hospital in that city.

The policeman stated that after the device was detonated, around 11.00 GMT, “Notably, the driver escaped from the taxi; he has been treated for the wounds suffered and has already been discharged from the hospital ”.

“Emergency services rushed to the scene and the Merseyside Fire Department put out the fire, after which it was immediately apparent that the remaining passenger in the vehicle had died.”He revealed, pointing out that although the body believes it already knows the identity of the deceased, they still cannot confirm it.

The police consider that it was the passenger who died who “Manufactured an improvised explosive device that caused the explosion” just outside the medical center.

In this sense, the head of the North West antiterrorist unit pointed out that at this time “no connection is established” between what happened and some events previously held in the area on the occasion of the so-called Remembrance Sunday -for those killed in combat- although he said that it is “a line of investigation.”

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