Footage too graphic to post. Must be dozens of people ran over by a car in a packed street.
We see you.
Incredibly good news that there have been no fatalities.
Whatever else happens regarding this awful incident, that alone is a bright spot.
The tone of the news conference does seem to lean towards the Police treating this as a road rage incident. I will be very curious to see what charges the CPS direct given the swerve to the right into a crowd of pedestrians captured on video, versus the driver either staying on the left or stopping the vehicle prior to the swerve.
I don’t disagree here. As I said, circumstances led to the killings
Feels like a miracle given the footage of the incident.
But would you have been 100% sure of that if you had been at that funeral? At the very least they were definitely surveilling the crowd to identify people they wanted to pick up later. They were not just there innocently. And in the circumstances, it was a perfectly reasonable assumption that they were also intending to attack the crowd again, many of whom had been present when Stone had attacked three days before. They were already both traumatised and anxious about another attack.
Remember, the only reason more people hadn't died in Stone's attack was because the crowd tackled and disarmed him. That was pretty bloody brave. But it also meant they didn't take much time to think about it. Second time round, there was (probably) no attack planned - but they couldn't know that. They reacted the same as they had done 3 days previously, but with added fury. I don't actually think they were wrong. Just mistaken.
Media very quick to identify the ethnicity of the culprit here , wasn't the case in Southport tragedy.
Has to be a minor miracle.
Looks like the car shouldn't have been where it was to begin with, someone messed up and they're blessed there's no fatalities.
Absolute bastard. May he rot in hell.
27 in hospital, 3 serious injuries, 1 child
4 injured kids
27 people hospitalised - 2 serious including 1 child - no fatalaties - 20 people treated at the scene. Not terror related - appeal for calm and not to share footage or speculate.
An awful event no matter the circumstances.
Intent is key. Was he trying to harm people?
Premeditation. Did he go to the area with that intent?
We don't know, and won't tonight. That footage of the car being attacked though, and someone opening his door to get at him (before anything happened) implies he was in fear of a mob and tried to get away. It could be one of those tragic situations where there was no intent to harm anyone but people got hurt. The driver is responsible for sure, but why did people attack him rather than try to help get him out of the area?
No deaths is brilliant news. A massive relief
Three adults and a child stuck under the car when the Fire Department got there. Bloody appalling stuff.
27, including 4 children, taken to various hospitals in the area. 20 treated at the scene with minor injuries and did not need hospital treatment
Two people with serious injuries.
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whatever about why they were there, they weren’t there to kill. And the mourners didn’t set out to kill either: Circumstances led to their killing.. and they were human beings. Absolute awful what they suffered. anyway, it’s off topic.
No fatalities
Previous talk of deaths was lies
''Incident is not being treated as terrorism ''
Police
Not being treated as terrorism
The amount of armchair experts, hype speculation merchants and psychologists on here is unreal. Absolutely definite they know what happened.
It'll take a bit of time before some sort of accurate picture of intent, panic etc is established around this tragedy.
No there aren't.
No reports of deaths, that's something positive
Only a short time apart though - the incident with the soldiers occurred at the funeral of one of Michael Stone's victims. And if anyone thinks they were two poor unfortunate soldiers doing a tour of Belfast who just happened to get lost just beside Milltown cemetary, well I have a lovely bridge to sell you.
And the people at the funeral were hardly wildly over reacting to have assumed that two armed males in a car watching the funeral of a terror attack victim were quite likely planning another attack that day too. It was a reasonable assumption.
Some mad posts here downplaying it as a result of panic. Inexcusable ploughing people down because someone has damaged your car.
Have a look at the various footage on this thread. I'd be flabbergasted if this was pre-meditated. Roads opened after the parade, the guy seems to have unwittingly driven into the wrong area, annoyed people with his presence, gotten attacked and tried to flee and hurt people in the process. How is that not tragic?
Press conference:
Press conference about to start by the looks of things.
Sure why didn't you wait yourself for something official before posting what you did…..
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