Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing

On 14 November 2021, a taxi with a passenger came to the main  of Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England. An improvised explosive device that the passenger was carrying exploded, killing him and injuring the driver. The police later said it was a terrorist attack. The attacker was refused asylum in 2014 and lost appeal in 2015. He lived in England until his attack.

## Incident 
On 14 November 2021, an explosion happened inside a taxi as it went in front of the main entrance of the Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England. The driver left the taxi seconds later and ran away. A fire badly burned the car after that. The passenger died in the attack. The taxi driver was admitted to the hospital, with injuries including an ear needing to be put back on, Merseyside Police were at the scene, along with fire and ambulance crews. The Royal Logistic Corps' Bomb Squad was also there. The hospital was put under a lockdown, roads were closed and a cordon was in place around the hospital by the evening. Armed police stayed at the hospital during this.
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Police later confirmed that the fire had been caused by the ignition of a  explosive device. Merseyside Police armed units raided a property in the Sefton Park area, although the BBC reported that police had not confirmed whether the two incidents were related. Three men aged 29, 26, and 21 were arrested in Liverpool in the early morning of the next day. They were arrested under the Terrorism Act. Police later said the arrests were a direct response to the attack. The arrest of the fourth man turned into a siege at the property he was in, and police deployed negotiators. This arrest was supported by United Kingdom Special Forces. Several houses in the Sefton Park area were evacuated. The four arrested men were released on 15 November.

### Perpetrator
The person who people thought was the perpetrator died during the attack. He was identified the next day as Emad al-Swealmeen. He apparently changed his name to Enzo Almeni. He was not known to MI5. A post-mortem found he died from injuries caused by the explosion and fire. He came to the UK around 2014 and claimed for asylum as a Syrian refugee. He was denied asylum because officials thought he was Jordanian and not Syrian. Seven years before the incident he was sectioned after trying to kill himself and waving a knife in Liverpool city centre. After that, he converted from Islam to Christianity in 2015. He had served time in a Middle East prison for serious assault. Police said that they believed he had lived at the Sutcliffe Street address for some time but had recently started renting a property in Rutland Avenue, where the bomb was made.

Reports  that al-Swealmeen had converted to Christianity just to get asylum, but the Church of England said that there was no evidence that converts' asylum claims are faster. He had been baptised in 2015 and confirmed in 2017, before losing contact with Liverpool Cathedral the following year. It was later revealed by investigators that al-Swealmeen had reverted to Islam months before the attack. A coroner determined that the bomb was made to kill someone but it was unclear if the device was supposed to detonate when it did. Prime Minister Boris Johnson also praised the driver. and the UK terror threat level was raised from substantial to severe. MI5 joined the investigation to support the local police,

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