A vehicle explosion outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital in northern England killed one person and injured the other. (Getty Images)
Police said a vehicle explosion outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital in northern England on Sunday killed one person and injured another, adding that counter-terrorism officials are leading an investigation.
Merseyside police said in a statement that they learned that the car involved was a taxi and stopped at the hospital shortly before the explosion.
Sheriff Serena Kennedy said that before 1100 GMT on Sunday, the police received a report of a car explosion.
“Work is still in progress to determine what happened,” she told the media.
“We are open to the cause of the explosion, but considering how it happened, out of caution, the counterterrorism police are leading an investigation supported by the Merseyside Police.”
The police said that the explosion has not yet been declared a terrorist incident at this stage.
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