An explosive device that blew up a taxi in Liverpool on Sunday was carried on board by a passenger and the blast is being treated as a “terrorist incident,” police said Monday.

The taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, killing the passenger and injuring the driver, who received medical treatment but has since been released from hospital.

Assistant Chief Const. Russ Jackson of Counter-Terrorism Policing Northwest said they believed they knew the identity of the passenger who was killed by the explosion, but could not disclose it.

Three men aged 29, 26 and 21 were arrested on Sunday, and Jackson said another 20-year-old man had been arrested Monday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to hold a meeting of the government’s emergency committee on Monday to discuss the explosion.

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