The driver, named locally as David Perry, was injured at the scene and remains in hospital in a stable condition, reports th e Liverpool Echo. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, The Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson praised the taxi driver for his heroic efforts - and said he "managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster". The male passenger of the car was declared dead at the scene and is yet to be formally identified. The three men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were detained in the nearby Kensington area of the city, while residents were evacuated as armed police were seen in Rutland Avenue, in the Sefton Park area, until the early hours of the morning. Three men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act after the blast involving the taxi at Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10.59am, around a mile away from the city’s cathedral where a large Remembrance service was taking place. A Liverpool taxi driver - who has been named as David Perry - has been hailed a hero after an explosion outside a women's hospital that is being treated as a potential terrorism incident.
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