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2021-11-15 Britain

The hero cabbie who 'stopped Poppy Day carnage' by 'locking suicide bomber in taxi and leaping out seconds before blast after passenger asked to go to Remembrance Day event but then said to go to hospital': MI5 join terror probe as cops arrest three

[MAIL] A 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.

A friend of married father-of-two Mr Perry, 45, said that he believed that the cathedral was the target but traffic and road closures led to the passenger, who has not been formally identified, asking the driver to park at the nearby Liverpool Women's Hospital instead. By locking him in, David appears to have stopped the man targeting the hospital as the clock struck 11am.

MI5 are said to be working with counter-terrorism police to confirm whether the Cathedral or the hospital was the true target and whether it was an Islamist attack.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-15 07:08|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top
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#1 Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion declared a terror incident

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-15 07:28|| 2021-11-15 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Word count in the hundreds. Dozens of photographs. Not ONE WORD regarding the identity or description of the victim or "men" arrested.

Perhaps I missed something.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-15 07:40|| 2021-11-15 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 One thing we can surmise,
the bomber died horribly.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-15 10:47|| 2021-11-15 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Got mangled anyway. A strong enough concussion from the blast would probably ensure the bomber was insensate. Still, it's nice to imagine a happy ending for everyone but the bomber.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-15 10:52|| 2021-11-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 To summarize both articles, including updates:

when the bomber first got into the taxi, he asked to go to the cathedral where the Remembrance ceremony was scheduled, then to the city center, then to stop outside the maternity hospital as they passed it

a fourth man was taken into custody previously — which sounds like they figured out he was connected after they’d picked him up for something unrelated, like harassing girls

the suicide bomber is not known to MI-5 but has been identified by the police

significant items have been found at one of the addresses raided following the bomb, one of which the jacket wallah may have lived at

the police currently think that the bomb detonators went off, but the bomb itself fizzled

the residents around the two raided addresses were cleared out last night with only five minutes warning

Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-15 11:26|| 2021-11-15 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Another "anti-vaxxer right wing white supremacist", I'm guessing.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-15 11:28|| 2021-11-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Likely a Brexit fan as well

Posted by Frank G 2021-11-15 11:43|| 2021-11-15 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ a bitter rayciss parent too

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 11:52|| 2021-11-15 11:52|| Front Page Top

#9 "the police currently think that the bomb detonators went off, but the bomb itself fizzled."
That had to smart. I've seen that happen.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2021-11-15 14:15|| 2021-11-15 14:15|| Front Page Top

#10 If it weren't for the diversity, the cabbie would not have found the strength to lock the bomber in the vehicle.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-15 14:50|| 2021-11-15 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 "the police currently think that the bomb detonators went off, but the bomb itself fizzled."

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