UK police release 4 men held over Liverpool taxi bombing
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British police have released four men arrested under terrorism laws by detectives investigating a homemade bomb explosion in a Liverpool taxi
LONDON -- 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.