Posted on 11/15/2021 3:06:31 AM PST by RandFan
A Liverpool taxi driver's "heroic efforts" averted what could have been an "awful disaster" on Remembrance Sunday, the city's mayor has said.
His cab pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital and exploded just before 11:00 GMT, as the national two minutes' silence was due to begin.
Joanne Anderson praised the cabbie, named locally as David Perry, for "locking the doors" before the blast.
The taxi passenger died at the scene and Mr Perry was taken to hospital.
Ms Anderson said he was not thought to have suffered life-threatening injuries and was recovering.
The dead passenger has not yet been formally identified.
Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act, while MI5 is assisting regional counter-terrorism police.
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I know everyone on FR would like to send their best wishes to Mr. Perry for a speedy recovery.
Bttt
Asking for a friend...
Maybe taxis over there have that so folks can’t bolt and run before paying tab?
Silence! I kill you!
That has got to be the worst written article at the link I’ve ever read. What doors did the taxi driver lock and how did that avert more deaths and disaster?
From the Daily Mail (BBC referred to the bomber as a person in the cab):
Hero taxi driver has been credited with saving many lives after locking an alleged suicide bomber inside his cab just moments before the vehicle blew up outside a hospital in what police and MI5 are now probing as a Poppy Day terror attack.
The explosion turned David Perry’s cab into a fireball outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, seconds before the 11am minute’s silence was due to take place yesterday.
The male passenger, who had asked to go to the city’s Service of Remembrance at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral less than a mile away where 1,200 military personnel, veterans and families of the fallen had gathered, was the only person killed.
Thanks...
Hahahahaha! Love it!
There aren’t many details because the counter-terror police won’t say much during the investigation
It’ll all come out in due course
The terrorist told him to go to the cathedral......
....so how/ why did he end up in front of a hospital?
“That has got to be the worst written article at the link I’ve ever read.”
It reads as if the guy is a hero for blowing up his cab at a memorial service.
The fact that the BBC doesn’t identify the terrorist as yet another “angry while man” tells you all you need to know about his REAL motivations
BBC will never acknowledge Islamic Terrorism, even if those snakes blew up the BBC Headquarters!!
er, make that “angry whiTe man”
COPS DO IT ALL THE TIME.....................
Great ad!
LOL, I assume it was an Internet “ad” for humor, but one never knows...
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