Kamis, 18 November 2021

Liverpool: Taxi driver 'called out for wife' after escaping explosion - Metro

Taxi driver 'called out for his wife' after escaping Liverpool bomb attack
David Perry is said to have called out for his wife after escaping the blast (Picture: Rex)

The taxi driver who survived the Remembrance Sunday bomb attack in Liverpool called out for his wife as he stumbled from the burning cab, according to the security guard who helped him.

Darren Knowles said he was pumping up the tyres on his own car when David Perry’s taxi pulled up outside the Women’s Hospital just before 11am on Sunday.

It has been revealed that the explosive device had been built by 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen, who had spent months plotting the attack which claimed his life.

Footage apparently taken from a CCTV camera on the hospital site that has been shared widely on social media shows the vehicle exploding seconds after coming to a stop.

Mr Perry can be seen getting out from the driver’s door and fleeing before being helped by a member of the public wearing a fluorescent vest.

The car then bursts into flames.

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.
Footage shows the moment the cab exploded outside the hospital
Aerial view of the aftermath of the explosion at the Liverpool Women's Hospital that killed one person and injured another on Sunday. Suspected terrorist Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died after the device exploded in a taxi shortly before 11am on Remembrance Sunday. Picture date: Wednesday November 17, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Hospital. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
Aerial view of the aftermath of the explosion (Picture: PA)
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 17: In an aerial view, the scene of the car explosion at Liverpool Women's Hospital is seen on November 17, 2021 in Liverpool, England. Authorities named the suspect in Sunday's bombing as Emad Al Swealmeen, who detonated a homemade explosive while in the back of a taxi outside Liverpool Women's Hospital. Mr Swealmeen died in the taxi, whose driver escaped with minor injuries. Four men arrested elsewhere in Liverpool following the blast were released without charge. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
The burned out car was removed on Wednesday (Picture: Getty)

Mr Knowles described hearing a ‘loud bang’ believing it was a mechanical failure before seeing Mr Perry rush from the taxi.

He told the Mirror: ‘He was panicking and screaming, “Someone has blown me up. I want my wife”.

‘He was trying to tell us, “There is a passenger, there is a passenger”.

‘I was trying to say to him, “Is he still in there”, and he was saying, “He has tried to blow me up”.’

Mr Knowles added: ‘Everyone is calling me a hero but I was just doing my job.

‘My hands were shaking when I realised how close I was to being blown up. But you don’t think, you just do.’

Emad Al Swealmeen has been named as the suicide bomber (Picture: Rex/Shutterstock)

Mr Perry, who has been praised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson for acting with ‘incredible presence of mind and bravery’, was treated in hospital after fleeing the car just before it burst into flames.

He has since been discharged.

City mayor Joanne Anderson previously suggested that the driver had locked the doors to prevent the passenger escaping.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital.

‘Our thanks go to him and our emergency services, and authorities have worked through the night to divert anything further and we’ve all been on standby and in constant contact to provide any support that’s needed.’

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