4 Liverpool fans seriously hurt when car plowed into a crowd. The suspect acted alone, police say

LIVERPOOL England AP British police were holding a -year-old man on Tuesday over a collision that turned a joyous soccer celebration in Liverpool to tragedy and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals four of them in very serious condition Merseyside Police commented they are not treating the happening as terrorism and are not looking for other subjects The force has not identified the arrested driver Police in Britain usually do not name accused until they are charged Detectives were working to piece together how a minivan plowed into crowds packing a narrow street just after the players of Liverpool Football Club had celebrated the Premier League championship with an open-topped bus parade Water Street near the River Mersey in the heart of the city was cordoned off by police tape and a blue tent had been erected on the road strewn with the detritus of celebration including bottles cans and Liverpool flags Liverpool City Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram stated four of the injured were very very ill in hospital The North West Ambulance Function declared a total of people were injured of whom were taken to local hospitals while were treated at the scene of the crash for minor injuries There were no shared deaths Four of the injured are children mentioned ambulance arrangement spokesman Dave Kitchin Four of the casualties including a child were trapped under the van and firefighters had to lift the bicycle to free them Hundreds of thousands of Liverpudlians had crammed the streets of the port city in northwest England on Monday to celebrate the club winning England s Premier League this season for a record-tying th top-flight title As the parade was wrapping up a minivan turned into a street just off the parade trail and plowed into the sea of fans wrapped in their red Liverpool scarves jerseys and other memorabilia A video on social media established the van strike a man tossing him in the air before veering into a larger crowd where it plowed a path through the group and pushed bodies along the street before coming to a stop It was extremely fast explained Harry Rashid who was with his wife and two young daughters as the minivan passed by them Initially we just heard the pop pop pop of people just being knocked off the bonnet of a car Rashid declared the crowd charged the halted truck and began smashing windows But then he put his foot down again and just plowed through the rest of them he just kept going Rashid announced It was horrible And you could hear the bumps as he was going over the people Police identified the suspect as a white local man in a achievable decision to prevent misinformation from flooding social media Last summer a teen in the nearby town of Southport killed three girls in a stabbing rampage at a dance class and wounded others including two adults An incorrect name of the suspect was spread on social media and people reported he was an asylum-seeker In fact he had been born in the U K Rioting spread across England and Northern Ireland targeting Muslims and refugees in hotels for asylum-seekers lasting about a week Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the scenes in Liverpool appalling and hailed the bravery of rescuers Everyone especially children should be able to celebrate their heroes without this horror Starmer reported The city has a long and proud history of coming together through arduous times Liverpool stands together and the whole country stands with Liverpool Associated Press writers Jill Lawless and Brian Melley in London contributed to this description Source