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| Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion: Man killed named as Emad Al Swealmeen | Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion: Man killed named as Emad Al Swealmeen |
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| Watch: The cab pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital and exploded into flames | Watch: The cab pulled up outside Liverpool Women's Hospital and exploded into flames |
| The man killed in an explosion outside Liverpool Women's Hospital has been named by police as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen. | The man killed in an explosion outside Liverpool Women's Hospital has been named by police as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen. |
| He was a passenger in a taxi when his homemade bomb exploded shortly before 11:00 GMT on Remembrance Sunday. | |
| The driver David Perry escaped before the car caught fire and has since been discharged from hospital. | The driver David Perry escaped before the car caught fire and has since been discharged from hospital. |
| Police said it had been declared as a terrorist incident and four men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act. | |
| Officers believe Al Swealmeen lived at a house in Sutcliffe Street in the Kensington area of Liverpool, where counter-terrorism police officers carried out raids earlier. | |
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| Police said he had recently rented an address in Rutland Avenue, near Sefton Park in the city, which has also been searched by officers. | |
| "Our focus is the Rutland Avenue address where we have continued to recover significant items," said Det Ch Insp Andrew Meeks, from Counter Terrorism Police North West. | |
| "Any information that the public may have about Al Swealmeen no matter how small may be of great assistance to us." | |
| Taxi driver David Perry has been released from hospital | |
| Al Swealmeen is believed to have manufactured and brought the device into the taxi. | |
| Police said he was picked from the Rutland Avenue area and asked to be taken to the hospital, about 10 minutes away, before the bomb exploded. | |
| He is not believed to have been known to MI5, according to BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera. |