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Witness: 'All you heard was screaming, it was disgusting'
By Ella Griffith, North of England producer in Liverpool
Hannah and Gavin came from Pembrokeshire to celebrate Liverpool's Premier League title win yesterday.
One of the best days of Gavin's life quickly turned into one of the worst.
"All you heard was screaming," he says, getting tearful. "It was disgusting, just screams and people scared for their lives."
The bottom of Water Street, opposite the Liver Building, is still cordoned off with police tape and dozens of media organisations reporting on what happened last night.
A number of police officers are standing guard, and 50 metres up the road, a large white police van is blocking the road and the view of the town hall. Discarded bottles, rubbish and a bike remain untouched.
Hannah said they'd had an "amazing day" but is traumatised this morning, shaking as she spoke.
She was on Water Street and didn't see the car, but heard the screaming, the police shouting for people to go, and people lying on the floor.
She said she heard someone saying a child had been hurt.
Hannah added that people didn't realise what had happened, and she panicked as she tried to find her partner Gavin.
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