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Police have also arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the bombing but have not released further details about his identity or the nature of his suspected involvement.
Grande's management team, Scooter Braun Projects, said they had been left heartbroken by the attack and praised the actions of Manchester's emergency services.
Rudd said up to 3,800 soldiers would be deployed on Britain's streets, freeing up police officers to carry out patrols and investigations.
However, some media outlets have reported that the shows have been canceled, and the singer herself apparently returned to Florida on Tuesday, the day after a suicide bomber detonated himself at her concert at the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people.
In Tripoli, a government spokesman confirmed an earlier eyewitness report that Abedi's father had been arrested by the Libyan counter-terrorism forces.
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.
United Kingdom police on Tuesday said they believed British-born Salman Abedi, aged 22, carried out Britain's deadliest bombing attack since 2005.
Mrs May raises the security threat level to the highest possible rating of critical, meaning another atrocity is expected imminently, saying a "wider group of individuals" could have been involved in the blast in addition to Abedi.
Police said they are urgently seeking to establish whether Abedi worked alone or acted as part of a larger network.
Salman Abedi, 22, the suicide bomber, had dropped out of university.
The Manchester attack underscores terror threats on Western targets remain real, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Coats told a Senate panel Tuesday.
The Manchester explosion was one the deadliest since the 2005 London subway bombings that claimed the lives of 56 people.
