This is the moment a taxi exploded outside a hospital in a suspected terror attack.
An alleged suicide bomber died inside the vehicle as it turned into a fireball moments before the two-minute silence on Remembrance Sunday.
Hero taxi driver David Perry is said to have locked the passenger, who he believed to be suspicious, in his cab.
The move could have stopped the suspect from reaching the hospital, potentially saving dozens of lives.
Harrowing new footage shows the vehicle explode before it comes to a standstill outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital yesterday.
Plumes of smoke come from the taxi as panicked onlookers run for help and a dazed man, thought to be Mr Perry, stumbles out.
The cabbie appears to warn people to stay away before the vehicle is engulfed in flames seconds later.
The male passenger is said to have initially requested a journey to Liverpool’s Service of Remembrance.
Military personnel, veterans and families of the fallen from recent conflicts had gathered to honour fallen soldiers.
After finding out the roads were blocked, the man ‘told Mr Perry to take him to the city centre before asking him to pull in outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital’.
Three men – aged 29, 26, and 21 – were arrested under the Terrorism Act as armed police raided a number of homes last night.
However, the explosion has not been named a terrorist incident and officers are ‘keeping an open mind’.
Mr Perry has been called ‘the luckiest man in Britain as well as the most heroic’ by a friend.
The source told MailOnline: ‘It was just before 11. David noticed the man had some kind of light attached to his clothing and was messing around with it, it didn’t look right at all.
‘I don’t know how he’s done it with a split second’s thought but David’s jumped out and locked the car with this guy in the back. As soon as he did, it’s gone off.’
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