28 May, 2017
So far, police are holding 11 suspects over Monday's blast at the end of a gig by United States pop idol Ariana Grande which killed 22 people, a third of them children.
The second one, a 44-year-old man, was arrested in south Manchester.
Between 2009-2016, the number of police officers fell by nearly 20,000, or around 14 percent, according to the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank.
From the day we started putting the Dangerous Woman Tour together, I said that this show, more than anything else, was meant to be a safe place for my fans.
"The level of resources we have available to us remains the same as we continue to take positive action so you will notice additional officers, including armed officers, on patrol especially at a number of events this weekend to ensure the security and safety of everyone, but it's important that people remain alert and vigilant".
"We thought he must have been a drug dealer or doing witchcraft", El-Hudarey told the BBC.
The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) increased the threat level to "critical" - its highest level - meaning a further terror attack was considered "imminent".
May said armed soldiers would be gradually withdrawn from Britain's streets starting midnight on Monday.
Monday night's attack at a concert by USA singer Ariana Grande left 22 people dead, including an eight-year-old girl. and dozens injured.
Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan descent, died in Monday's explosion, which killed 22 others and wounded almost 120 as crowds were leaving an Ariana Grande concert.
The Home Secretary's comments came after police issued CCTV stills of Abedi, bespectacled and casually clothed, in a plea for information about his movements between May 18 and the attack.
A bomb disposal vehicle was called to an address in Manchester under investigation on Saturday morning, and residents in the area were evacuated.
In the letter, Grande said that the spirit of music and her fans runs contrary to the intentions and hatred that would have motivated someone to initiate the attack outside of her concert in Manchester earlier this week.
Speaking after a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee, Mrs May said the decision had been taken after "a significant amount of police activity" over the last 24 hours.
Monday's suicide bombing, which killed 22 people and injured more than 100, many of them young people, took place just after Grande had finished performing. A total of 116 people were treated in hospitals after the bombing.
Operation Temperer, which involved the deployment of troops on patrol alongside police, will be wound down on Monday night, at the end of the bank holiday weekend.
The statement said the investigation was making "good progress" with 1,000 people working on it around the clock.
Grande has promised to return to Manchester for a benefit concert.
But she added defiantly: "We will not quit or operate in fear". She won't be back at Manchester Arena for the Live Nation-produced show, but she'll be populating one of the other three biggest venues in the city.
