29 May, 2017
22 people - including children and teenagers - were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives as the audience was leaving Grande's show at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
American pop singer Ariana Grande told fans she plans to return to Manchester where her sell-out concert Monday ended with Britain's worst terrorist act for 12 years.
In fact, it will only fuel more love and support for her Manchester fans by way of a benefit concert planned specially for those affected from the attack.
On Friday, she released a long statement, saying "I have been thinking of my fans, and of you all non stop over the past week".
Posted to her Instagram and Twitter, the "Side to Side" songstress penned a lengthy love letter to her fans further expressing her condolences to the victims, families and the Manchester metropolis as a whole.
Grande gave no details about when she would return other than to say they'd be coming as soon as things were confirmed.
"From the day we started putting the Dangerous Woman Tour together", Grande wrote in her letter, "I said that this show, more than anything else, was meant to be a safe space for my fans".
Emergency response vehicles are parked at the scene of a suspected terrorist attack during a pop concert by U.S. star Ariana Grande in Manchester, northwest England on May 23, 2017.
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 space for my fans.
She did not announce a date for the concert.
Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
Investigators have said they believe he was part of a wider network of militants. Citing unnamed federal security sources, Focus reports that Salman Abedi twice flew from a German airport in recent years and wasn't on any worldwide watch list.
Greater Manchester Police say two men were arrested overnight in Manchester and in the Withington area in the south of the city.
