LONDON: British police were on Sunday (Mar 29) questioning a 36-year-old man arrested for attempted murder after a car ploughed into people on a street in a central English city, injuring seven of them.<\/p>\n
Police in Derby, about 65km north of Birmingham, said counterterrorism officers were supporting the probe but they had not yet determined a motive for the incident there late on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In an update on Sunday, Chief Superintendent Emma Aldred told reporters investigators believe the “horrific incident” was “isolated” and that there was “no wider risk to the public”.<\/p>\n
“Officers were on scene just seconds after a car collided with pedestrians who were simply enjoying a night out in Derby,” she said.<\/p>\n
“While none of those injured in the incident have suffered life-threatening physical injuries, the impact on them, I am sure, is just beginning to be felt.”<\/p>\n
Aldred noted the involvement of counterterror officers was “common practice for an incident of this nature” as police probe the circumstances and a possible motive.<\/p>\n
“I would like to clarify that this does not mean the incident is currently being treated as terrorism,” she added.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old in custody is originally from India but is a Derby resident who has lived in the United Kingdom “for a number of years”, according to Aldred.<\/p>\n
UK police forces have started to release such details in some high-profile cases, after a 2024 Southport mass stabbing targeting children was initially falsely blamed on a purported immigrant.<\/p>\n
Misinformation online was viewed as helping to fuel anti-immigration riots that subsequently swept the country.<\/p>\n
SEVEN INJURED<\/p>\n
The suspect in the Derby incident was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, causing serious injury through dangerous driving, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and dangerous driving.<\/p>\n
Police have opted not to provide any further details about him.<\/p>\n
The interior ministry declined to comment on his immigration and citizenship status.<\/p>\n
“The police are leading the investigation and ministers are being kept updated as it progresses,” a spokeswoman for the ministry said.<\/p>\n
Officers detained the suspect on the other side of central Derby seven minutes after the incident unfolded, thanks to eyewitnesses reporting the vehicle’s movements in its aftermath, police said.<\/p>\n
The black Suzuki Swift car had struck the pedestrians at about 9.30pm in the area around Friar Gate, which is a popular nightlife spot.<\/p>\n
The seven injured, some seriously according to police, were treated at the scene and then taken to Royal Derby Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre in the nearby city of Nottingham.<\/p>\n
“The seven suffered a range of serious but not life-threatening injuries and we can confirm that, contrary to online speculation, no one died in the incident,” an earlier Derbyshire Police statement noted.<\/p>\n
Interior minister Shabana Mahmood was being kept updated on the incident, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: British police were on Sunday (Mar 29) questioning a 36-year-old man arrested for attempted murder after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-502049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}