27 May, 2017
Manchester police has said, according to local media, that one of the men was arrested following a property search in the Withington area of Manchester, while another was detained elsewhere in the city.
In London, police and security are being boosted, the Metropolitan Police Service announced Wednesday.
Some British authorities were concerned that Salman Abedi had worked with a bomb maker who was still on the loose, but a source with knowledge of the ongoing investigation said it is possible that Abedi built the bomb himself.
"And as I've said, it continues at a pace".
Asked whether the USA leaks had compromised the investigation, Rudd said: "I wouldn't go that far but I can say that they are perfectly clear about the situation and that it shouldn't happen again".
The anti-terror force that took Hashim Abedi into custody said that the teenager had confessed that both he and his brother were members of the Islamic State group and that he "knew all the details" of the Manchester attack plot.
"I spoke to [Salman Abedi] about five days ago. there was nothing wrong, everything was normal", Ramadan Abedi told Reuters, moments before he was arrested mid-interview.
Salman told his parents about a week ago he wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia to prepare a pilgrimage to Mecca, according to one family friend and a Libyan official."But he was lying", said Ahmed Dagdoug, a spokesman of the Libyan counterterrorism Reda Force, which is aligned with the Libyan government that is recognised by the United Nations.
Investigators believe 22-year-old Manchester-born suicide bomber Salman Abedi, from a family of Libyan origin, acted as part of a terrorist network and their focus had been on intercepting his wider network.
The official Twitter account of the Manchester Evening News tweeted to say that online fashion retailer Boohoo.com - which has its head office close to the site of the attack - has donated £100,000 to the campaign. "He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge", Jomana Abedi told the Wall Street Journal. "If we gave up information that has interfered in any way with their investigation because it tipped off people in Britain - perhaps associates of this person that we identified as the bomber - then that's a real problem and they have every right to be furious".
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said the leak of the pictures breached trust and "undermines our investigations and the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families". "As we were discussing news of similar attacks earlier, he was always against those attacks, saying there's no religious justification for them".
United Kingdom police have accused USA media of undermining the investigation into Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester after unauthorized images were published of some of the bomb materials used in the attack.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will confront United States President Donald Trump over leak of information about the Manchester Arena attack from the investigation when she meets him at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels on Thursday.
The bombing at a concert by US pop idol Ariana Grande was the latest in a series of IS-claimed attacks in Europe that have coincided with an offensive on the jihadist group in Syria and Iraq by US, British and other Western forces.
Britain's terror threat assessment has been raised to "critical", the highest level, meaning an attack is considered imminent.
The 22 people killed in the Manchester bombing included elementary school students, with the youngest just eight years old.
A British army soldier patrols with an armed police officer near the Houses of Parliament in central London.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News that the intelligence services had been aware of Abedi, who is reported to have recently returned to the United Kingdom from Libya.
The pictures appeared in the New York Times and followed an earlier leak to U.S. media of the attacker's name.
