27 people, including 4 children, hospitalized after car plows into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans

"The car stopped astatine the country and a antheral has been detained," constabulary said.

LONDON -- A operator struck pedestrians successful Liverpool connected Monday, constabulary said, arsenic hundreds of thousands had gathered astatine a parade celebrating the Liverpool Football Club winning the English Premier League shot title.

The conveyance collided with "a fig of pedestrians connected Water Street" conscionable aft 6 p.m. section time, Merseyside Police said.

"The car stopped astatine the country and a antheral has been detained," Merseyside Police said successful a statement.

The car stopped astatine the country and a 53-year-old British antheral has been arrested, according to police.

"Extensive enquiries are ongoing to found the circumstances starring up to the collision," Merseyside Police said successful an update portion asking the nationalist "not to speculate connected the circumstances surrounding tonight's incident."

Police besides asked radical to nonstop related footage to them and "not to stock distressing contented online."

Emergency unit are astatine the scene, authorities said. Police did not person details connected immoderate injuries successful the collision.

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the incidental "shocking."

"The scenes successful Liverpool are appalling -- my thoughts are with each those injured oregon affected," Starmer said successful a statement. "I'm being kept updated connected developments and inquire that we springiness the constabulary the abstraction they request to investigate."

The Liverpool Football Club said it is successful interaction with constabulary regarding the incident, which occurred toward the extremity of the parade.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with those who person been affected by this superior incident," the nine said successful a statement. "We volition proceed to connection our afloat enactment to the exigency services and section authorities who are dealing with this incident."

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