Several people were injured on Monday when a car ploughed into football fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title victory while police said a 53-year-old British man had been arrested.

An AFP journalist in Liverpool saw at least four people taken away on stretchers, after witnesses reported seeing people hit by a dark-coloured vehicle swerving through the huge crowds.

It was not immediately clear how many people had been hurt, or how badly, or why the car collided with pedestrians around 6:00 pm (1700GMT).

But tens of thousands of people had turned out in torrential rain for the jubilant celebrations to see the northwest English side's victory parade, involving players on an open-topped bus and fireworks.

The bus carrying the team had passed by Water Street just minutes before the car ran into the crowd, witnesses told media.

"It was extremely fast," said Harry Rashid, 48, from Solihull, near Birmingham, central England, who was at the parade with his wife and two young daughters.

"Initially we just heard the pop, pop, pop of people just being knocked off the........

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