Ni Liverpool Fan in Hospital after Being Struck by Car at Parade

A man from Northern Ireland is Being Treated in Hospital after Being Struck by a Car A Liverpool Football Club Parade.

Jack Trotter, From Newtownards, County Down, and His Girlfriend Abbie Gallagher Were Hit by the Car as it DROVE INTO FANS ON WATER STREET, IN Liverpool.

IT HAPPENED AT ABOUT 18:00 BST ON MONDAY AS THOUSANDS OF LIVERPOOL FC FANS GATHered in the City Center for the Premier League Victory Parade.

Speaking to bbc news ni from hospital, mr trotter said he was in “absolute agony”.

The couple had traveled to the parade with Friends from Northern Ireland.

Mersyside Police Say A 53-YEAR-OLD BRITISH MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED.

Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Said The Incident Is Not Being Treated As Terrorism.

David Kitchen, From the North West Ambulance Service, Said 27 Patients Were taken to Various Hospital Across Liverpool.

Four of the injured were children and one paramedic on a bike was also osto osto but not serial injured, he added.

On Monday Evening, BBC News ni spoke to some fans who haad travelled to liverpool, after their Flight landed in belfast.

John Baxter Attended The Parade But Did Not See What Had Happened.

“We were stupid on down in the city at the time,” he said.

“Going with Liverpool fans to a thing like you’re always Expecting something good but unfortunately it’s Went.”

Daniel Baxter Said the Mood was “a bit of a let down”.

“Liverpool has waited so long to celebrate something and we actually had no day and then like this haad to ruin it,” he said.

“Before the incident, everything was fine, everyone was happy, partying, celebrating and that think onca the news out of the about what haad happened, everyone was sort of panking to know what happened, get to the botTom of it.

“There were police everywhere, I really know how it happened, That’s the THING, The Streets were cordoned off.”

Stephen Boyd Described The Incident As “Scary”.

“Up unil that incident, i would Say, there was at least a million on the streets and i though it was very welled and very well Attended by all fans, it’st shocking.”