Johnson praises cab driver's bravery in Liverpool explosion
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday praised the conduct of the taxi driver that exploded outside a hospital in Liverpool, northern England, on Sunday, Bloomberg News reported.
"It appears from the footage that the driver acted with an incredible amount of presence of mind and courage," Bloomberg quoted Johnson as telling reporters on Monday.
Video footage posted on the Internet showed a black taxi pulling out of the hospital's parking lot, followed by an explosion, followed by a scene of the driver running out of it.
Today, Monday, the United Kingdom raised its terrorist threat level from large to severe, which means that an attack is highly likely, and Johnson held a meeting of the country's emergency committee "Cobra" to discuss the explosion.
"I cannot comment on the specifics of the case or the motive, but it is a stark reminder of the need to remain fully vigilant," Johnson told a news conference at 10 Downing Street on Monday.
British police classified the blast, which occurred on Sunday, as a terrorist incident, the second of its kind in a month.
The explosion occurred one minute before the start of the annual commemoration day celebrations for those who died while serving Britain in the war.
Ross Jackson, a Northwest counter-terror police official, said the man who was killed in the blast had a homemade bomb in his taxi and asked to go to a women's hospital in Liverpool.
The man got into the car on Rutland Avenue in Liverpool, went to the hospital, and when the taxi reached the place designated to drop off passengers, it exploded.
The taxi driver, identified as David Perry, was treated in hospital after fleeing the car before it exploded, and is now out.
Four people have been arrested so far under the terrorism law in the Kensington area of Liverpool, three of them are 21 years old, 26 years old and 29 years old, and they were detained on Sunday, and the fourth person (20 years old) was arrested. Today.
British police said on Monday that the man behind the explosion of a taxi in Liverpool, which authorities described as a terrorist incident, was 32-year-old Emad Al-Swailem.
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