The multiple abuse occurred on Monday in Liverpool during the Parade of the Title of the Premier League of Soccer, which has been arrested a 53 -year -old British man, he resulted in 27 hospitalized people and among those affected there are four children, according to the authorities.
During a press conference with media, the director of the Northwest Ambulance Service (NWAS), David Kitchin, said that 27 patients were taken to Liverpool hospitals to be treated and added that “unfortunately, four of the injured were children.”
The Deputy Director of the Merseyside Police, Jenny Sims, said it was an “isolated incident” and is not being investigated as a terrorist attack.
Earlier a spokesman for the police authority asked people to “not speculate on the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
“Exhaustive investigations are being carried out to establish the circumstances that led to the collision,” added the representative of the Merseyside Police.
The security forces reported on social networks of the arrest of a man after a traffic accident in the center of the English city after 18:00 local time in which a car had collided with “several pedestrians” in Water Street, near where the Liverpool carried out the parade of the Premier League celebration.
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At the moment the identity of the arrested is unknown and official data on the number of people who have been injured or their degree of gravity have not transcended.
The images published by the British media show that the police have cordoned off the area of the event, where there is a large police presence, ambulances and a fire truck.
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, described the multiple abuse as “frightening,” thanked the “rapid response” of emergency services and asked to give the police “space” to investigate what happened.
Thousands of people gathered on Monday, spring festive in the United Kingdom, in the streets of the city of the Northwest English on the occasion of the celebration parade of the twentieth English League Championship of the Liverpool, in which the players of the team celebrated for several hours uploaded to a convertible bus.
Liverpool said that their “thoughts and prayers” are with those affected by the massive outrage of this Monday during the celebration of the Premier League title and offered their “total help” to emergency services and local authorities.
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His eternal rival, Everton, also expressed on social networks his shock for this “serious incident.”
With EFE information
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