"Homemade" Liverpool bomb - It was made of bearings
The improvised explosive device in the near-attack in Liverpool was made with attached bearings that would act as shrapnel.
The suspect as the perpetrator of the Liverpool bombing made his improvised explosive device by wrapping it with bearings to cause more deaths and injuries, as revealed by the police.
A car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people. The alleged perpetrator used many pseudonyms to buy the parts for the bomb, as early as April 2021.
The blast was described as a terrorist act , but more than five days later, police are still unable to identify the ideology or cause of the attack.
Police investigating the case say that a further study of the device is needed to determine what makes it up.
"It was made of improvised explosive devices and had ball bearings attached that would act as shrapnel. If it had exploded in different conditions, we believe it would have caused significant injury or death," said Ras Jackson, the area's counterterrorism chief.
Jackson clarified that the explosive device was different from the one that was used during the attack on a concert hall in Manchester in 2017.
"We still do not know how or why the device exploded when it exploded, but we do not rule out that it did not happen intentionally, and it is possible that the movement or stopping of the vehicle caused the ignition," he said.
