Four children are among several dozen people injured in Liverpool as a day of joy for the city turned into one of unforgettable horror.
Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of thousands of Scousers packed into the city to celebrate the victory of Liverpool FC in the Premier League.
The crowd sang You’ll Never Walk Alone and red smoke billowed into the air as the team waved down at their delighted fans.
Around 6PM, a car drove into the crowd on Water Street and the celebration turned into a nightmare.
Four children were injured and dozens more adults have been hospitalised; one child and one adult have "serious injuries".
A 53-year-old white British male has been arrested. Police said they are not treating the incident as terror related.
Liverpool parade
Off The Ball journalist Nathan Murphy, who was in Liverpool, described it as a “very, very surreal atmosphere”.
“There were a million people in Liverpool yesterday, which is sort of hard to comprehend that many people around,” he told Newstalk Breakfast.
“When I initially went back towards the scene of the incident about 45 minutes after it happened, you’re walking past dozens of pubs where people are singing, people are still celebrating.
“The news hadn’t filtered through what had happened.”
Four children were among about 50 people injured in a "horror" incident after a car hit pedestrians during Liverpool's Premier League victory parade, with one child seriously hurt.
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Water Street is close to the city centre and phone lines were jammed, such was the volume of people in Liverpool yesterday.
“It was only as you got up to the cordon and met some of the people who had witnessed it, started to see some of the family who were worried about loved ones and wondering where they were that you got a true sense of what might have happened,” he said.
Police near the scene of the crash. Picture by: AP Photo/Jon Super.In the aftermath of the crash, Mr Murphy said the atmosphere became “chaoitc”.
“To be honest, I think the city was struggling to cope with that sort of influx,” he said.
“Going back to Lime Street Station at around half nine, 10 o’clock last night, you couldn’t get within 50 feet of it.
“There were people who had been queuing for three and a half, four hours to try and get back out of the city.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the incident as “appalling”, while Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he was “saddened and shocked” by the news.
Main image: The scene in Liverpool after the parade. Picture by: Alamy.com.
