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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Barlow

Liverpool bomber detonated device outside women’s hospital after asylum claim was refused

Merseyside Police

A man who detonated a bomb outside a hospital had a grievance against the British state because his asylum claim was rejected, a police investigation has found - as CCTV was released showing the moment of the explosion.

Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died after the device, which he had made himself, exploded while he was in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital just before 11am on November 14 2021. Driver David Perry managed to escape from the Ford Focus taxi following the blast.

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