29 May, 2017
Authorities are chasing possible links between the bomber, Salman Abedi, and militants in Manchester, elsewhere in Europe, and in North Africa and the Middle East.
New details about Abedi emerged Wednesday, including that he had been known to intelligence services, Rudd told the BBC. "His extremism, his rhetoric, was an issue of concern, so much that this person reported it". 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.
- A man, who police said was carrying a suspect package, is arrested in Wigan, a town near Manchester. "To my knowledge and many in this community, that's the general impression".
"I saw a flash, like an explosion flash", Keeling said. Abedi's father and two brothers have also been arrested in Britain and in Libya.
"He stood up and started calling the imam - 'You are talking bollocks, '" Ramadan said.
Fadl rejected that account, though he conceded he did not witness the incident.
The 20-year-old was also plotting a terror attack in Tripoli, the nation's capital, officials said.
"He was very isolated".
Abedi's father reportedly protested his son's innocence in the hours before his arrest. Some of them have been named by friends and family.
Another victim was 15-year-old Olivia Campbell, whose uncle stood at the hospital doors showing everyone her picture and hoping to find her, before learning of her death.
- A spokesman for Libyan authorities said one of Abedi's final acts was to ring his mother.
Grande, whose fan base is dominated by girls and young women, said she had seen a "beautiful, diverse, pure, happy crowd".
"He was giving farewell", bin Salem said.
Manchester police said they believe they have identified all 22 victims killed in the attack, but it will take "several days" to formally announce the names to the public. They "feel like they are being disbanded from two societies, Libyan society and British society", he said.
Much of Abedi's background would seem to bely such a sinister trajectory.
On Wednesday, a series of raids were executed across Manchester, Wigan and Nuneaton in Warwickshire, while relatives of Abedi were detained in Libya.
May said around 1 000 soldiers were assisting police "providing important reassurance ahead of a bank holiday weekend of busy events".
Another man was arrested in Nuneaton, England, about 100 miles south of Manchester.
