Bomb disposal team used to search Wigan house in United Kingdom bomb investigation

Manchester Bomber Caught on Surveillance Shopping Days Before Attack
Bomb disposal team used to search Wigan house in UK bomb investigation
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27 May, 2017

"Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before", she said in an essay posted on her social media accounts.

"Why was there no outrage for the killing of an Arab and a Muslim in such a cruel way?" she asked.

In Monday night's attack, at least 22 people died and almost 60 were sent to hospitals after an explosion struck in the area between the concert venue and the adjacent transit station.

The suspected bomber grew up in Manchester's southern suburbs and once attended Salford University there.

Eight men remain in police custody.

Earlier, the Greater Manchester Police condemned the investigation leaks on behalf of the National Counter-Terrorism Policing units in a statement that suggested a severe rupture in trust between Britain and the United States. But leaks from the investigation were creating a trans-Atlantic diplomatic mess.

The Guardian newspaper in London said that Prime Minister Theresa May will confront U.S. President Donald Trump over the stream of leaks of crucial intelligence when the pair meet Thursday at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit meeting in Brussels.

"This will not change", she said.

President Trump refused to answer questions Thursday about raising concern among key allies about sharing intelligence with the United States, just as he prepares to join many of them here to inaugurate the new North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters.

Hours later, The New York Times published photos of and information about the crime scene, citing "British authorities".

Trump's disclosure prompted Israel, the reported source of that intelligence, to make a "pinpoint correction" in its intelligence sharing with the U.S.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he had raised the leaks with the U.S. ambassador. Hopkins said the leaks "caused much distress for families that are already suffering terribly with their loss".

Meanwhile, the investigation into the blast widened.

The development signalled an expansion of an investigation that has already stretched to North Africa and continental Europe. ISIS issued a claim of responsibility Tuesday, but the level of the terrorist group's involvement isn't known.

Emotions were still raw in the north-western city, three days after Salman Abedi's attack on the concert by United States pop star Ariana Grande - especially so as the bomber was born in the city.

Mohammed Fadl, a community leader, rejected that account.

Elders at the south Manchester mosque believed to have been frequented by Abedi insisted that his actions were wholly alien to their preaching, and pointed the finger at online radicalisation.

A spokesman for the Special Deterrence Force, which acts as Libya's Government of National Accord's police, said the brother was aware of Abedi's plan and that the siblings were both members of ISIS.

"He was giving farewell", bin Salem said, relaying that Abedi told his mother, "Forgive me".

"He was giving farewell", bin Salem said.

Police said the suspect had a "package" on him while witnesses reported a bomb squad arriving at the cordoned off area.

"They wouldn't let you share bread with them", she said Abedi told her. "They are unjust to the Arabs".

During the questioning, Abedi's mother revealed that he returned to England from Libya just four days prior to the attack and called her to say goodbye on the day of the attack.

Before his arrest, Abedi's father said he had last spoken to his son five days ago and he sounded "normal".

At 11 a.m. Thursday, many across Britain fell silent and bowed their heads for a minute in tribute to the victims of Monday night's bombing. Crowds gathered at well-known sites including London's Parliament and Trafalgar Squares and Manchester's Albert Square.

She will use the Manchester attack, which she will describe as "a callous and cowardly act that was all the more sickening in the way it targeted innocent and defenceless children and young people", as an example of why the world needs to do more.


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