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Man arrested over school nail bomb

A man has been arrested on suspicion of planting a nail bomb outside a primary school.

The bomb exploded inside a teacher's car at Runnymede St Edward's prep school in West Derby, Liverpool, on Friday.

The bomb, described by police as an "improvised firework-type device", exploded just minutes before the end of the school day.

The vehicle, a Nissan Micra, belonging to a female teacher, was parked about 30ft from the windows of the £4,500-a-year public school but nobody was injured.

A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "A 21-year-old man from Huyton, Merseyside, has been arrested on suspicion of causing an explosion."

The man is being held at a police station on Merseyside and is being questioned.

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