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British authorities raised the threat level to its second-highest rung on Monday, after police said a blast in a taxi outside a Liverpool hospital was caused by a homemade bomb.
Investigators said they were treating Sunday鈥檚 explosion 鈥 which killed the suspected bombmaker and injured the cab driver 鈥 as a terrorist incident, but that the motive was unclear.
Counterterrorism police named the dead man as 32-year-old Emad Al Swealmeen. They did not give further details. But Britain鈥檚 Press Association news agency and other media reported that he had not been on the radar of the security services.
The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre raised the UK threat level from substantial 鈥 meaning an attack is likely 鈥 to severe, meaning it is highly likely, following the UK鈥檚 second fatal incident in a month.
Conservative lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in October in what police said was an act of terrorism.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the 鈥渟ickening attack鈥 at Liverpool Women鈥檚 Hospital and told reporters that the British people 鈥渨ill never be cowed by terrorism.鈥
鈥榃e will never give in鈥
鈥淲e will never give in to those who seek to divide us with senseless acts of violence,鈥 he said.
The male passenger in a taxi was killed and the driver injured when a blast ripped through the vehicle as it pulled up outside the hospital on Sunday morning.
Russ Jackson, the head of Counterterrorism Policing in northwest England, said the explosion was caused by 鈥渢he ignition of an explosive device鈥 that was brought into the vehicle by the passenger.
Three men in their 20s were arrested elsewhere in the city on Sunday under the Terrorism Act and a fourth was detained on Monday. All are believed to be 鈥渁ssociates鈥 of the dead passenger, police said.
Suspicions about a motive for the explosion have been aroused by the timing 鈥 just before 11 am on Remembrance Sunday, the moment when people across Britain hold services in memory of those killed in wars.
Jackson said investigators had not found a link to remembrance events 鈥渂ut it is a line of inquiry we are pursuing.鈥
鈥淎lthough the motivation for this incident is yet to be understood, given all the circumstances, it has been declared a terrorist incident,鈥 he said at a press briefing.
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