U.K. police release 4 men held over Liverpool taxi bombing
CTV
British police released four men who were arrested under terrorism laws while detectives investigate a homemade bomb explosion in a Liverpool taxi and work to understand the motives of the suspected bomber, who died in the blast.
Police have named the bomber as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen, who came to Britain as an asylum-seeker from the Middle East and later converted to Christianity.
Al Swealmeen was killed and a taxi driver injured when a blast ripped through the vehicle as it pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday morning.
Police have called the blast a terrorist act and believe the dead man built the bomb, but they are still working to determine the motive.
Four men in their 20s who had been detained under the Terrorism Act were released late Monday. Russ Jackson, the head of counterterrorism policing for northwest England, said that "following interviews with the arrested men, we are satisfied with the accounts they have provided and they have been released from police custody."
