A government source said that the level of the terrorist threat has risen to a serious level, which means that an attack is “very likely.”
Before the threat level changed, a suspected terrorist detonated himself with a homemade bomb outside a taxi. Liverpool Memorial Day Hospital.
police Shortly before 11 am on Sunday, a car outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital declared the explosion a terrorist attack, but said the motive was not clear.
Detectives arrested four people under the Terrorism Act, three of whom were 21, 26 and 29 years old, who were suspected of killing the suspect in a taxi.
The decision to raise the threat level was made by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Center (JTAC) located at MI5 headquarters in London.
The last time the threat level was raised to severe was in November 2020, when a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Europe. Four people were shot dead by gunmen in Vienna, and three others were attacked with a knife and killed in Nice.
In February 2021, this was downgraded to “substantial”, and Interior Secretary Priti Patel stated that this represented a “significant reduction” in the momentum of attacks across Europe.
There are five terrorist threat levels, only “serious” is higher than “serious”. After the Parsons Green train bombing in 2017, the authorities last announced a “serious” threat level.
The Minister of the Interior Priti Patel (Priti Patel) said that due to two attacks in a month, the terrorist threat level has increased.
She told the broadcaster: “Jtac, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Center, is now increasing the threat level in the UK from severe to severe.
“There is a reason, and that reason is because what we saw yesterday was the second incident that happened within a month.”
Assistant Sheriff (ACC) Russ Jackson from the Northwest Anti-Terrorism Region said that the passenger was likely to bring the explosive device into the car.
