UK police probe whether car explosion at hospital was attack
ABC News
British police and intelligence services are working to determine whether a taxi explosion outside a Liverpool hospital was a deliberate attack
LONDON -- British police and intelligence services were working Monday to determine whether a taxi explosion outside a Liverpool hospital was a deliberate attack, as the city’s mayor said the cab driver's quick actions had averted a potential disaster.
The male occupant of a taxi was killed and its driver injured when the vehicle burst into flames outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday morning. Counterterrorism police officers are leading the investigation, but have not yet declared it a terrorist incident.
Three men in their 20s were arrested Sunday at an address in the northwest England city under the Terrorism Act and remain in custody.
Suspicions have been aroused by the timing of the explosion — just before 11 a.m. on Remembrance Sunday, the moment people across Britain hold services in memory of those killed in wars.
