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The UK government has raised the country&rsquo;s nationwide terrorist threat level to severe on Monday after a suicide bomber killed himself when he detonated an explosive device in the back of a taxi at the Liverpool maternity hospital a day earlier.</p>
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The bomber has been identified as Enzo Almeni who was born Emad Jamil Al-Swealmeen and raised in Iraq before moving to the UK several years ago. He converted to Christianity in 2015. Some of his accomplices have also been arrested.</p>
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CCTV video clips put on social media platforms show that the driver of the taxi had a miraculous escape as he got out a split second before the explosion and was lucky to get away with minor injuries.</p>
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&ldquo;It does look as though the taxi driver in question did behave with incredible presence of mind and bravery,&rdquo; Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the media. He said that the investigation is ongoing and said it was premature to share further details.</p>
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The blast occurred around 11 a.m. on Remembrance Sunday, a day to honor Britain&rsquo;s war dead, outside the Liverpool Women&rsquo;s Hospital.</p>
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The Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson told Daily Mail&nbsp; &ldquo;the taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an absolutely awful disaster at the hospital&rdquo;, adding that he had &ldquo;locked the doors&rdquo; to keep the bomber in the back.</p>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10203973/Suicide-bombers-target-Poppy-Day-parade.html">&#39;Suicide bomber&#39;s first target was Poppy Day parade&#39;: &#39;Terrorist&#39; wanted to go to cathedral but asked to go to hospital instead when route was blocked by traffic, says cabbie&#39;s friend</a></p>
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According to a report in the Daily Mail, the bomber wanted to go to the nearby cathedral where a Remembrance Sunday service was being held and more than 1,200 military personnel, veterans and families of the fallen had gathered but found the streets were blocked.</p>
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&ldquo;First of all, the incident has been declared as a terrorist incident. The police have now declared that. Secondly, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (Jtac) are now increasing the United Kingdom&rsquo;s threat level from substantial to severe, and that is because what we saw yesterday is the second incident in a month,&rdquo; the home secretary, Priti Patel told the media on Monday referring to the attack on the British MP David Amess last month. He was stabbed to death.</p>
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