United Kingdom police arrest another man in Manchester concert bombing probe

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27 May, 2017

Manchester hospitals are still treating 75 people in the aftermath of Monday's bombing attack, including 23 in critical care, according to a statement from NHS England on Thursday.

Police have arrested another man in Manchester.

He did not elaborate, but those arrests around the northwestern English city include Ismail Abedi, the brother of 22-year-old Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi. Abedi's father and younger brother have been detained in Libya, where they are questioned.

United States officials released the suspected bomber's name and other details of the investigation into the deadly attack at the Manchester Arena Monday night, irking British investigators scrambling to keep details of the probe confidential.

One British official told The Associated Press that police in Manchester have stopped sharing information about their bombing investigation with the USA until they get a guarantee that there will be no more leaks to the media. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information hadn't been cleared for public release. Trump was widely criticised this month after it emerged he had discussed sensitive Syria-related intelligence, originating from an ally, with Russian officials at a White House meeting.

The killer's sister, Jomana Abedi, told the Wall Street Journal her brother may have been reacting to US-led strikes in the Middle East. -British defense and security partnership is built on trust.

With Britain still braced for an "imminent" attack, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she expected the "critical" assessment of the terror threat will be in place for the coming days. The state-run National Health Service said all 27 major trauma units in England had told staff to be prepared for a possible attack, ahead of the weekend and a public holiday on Monday.Bomb-Maker?

"All those people are in the mix and they have to be looked at", said Mr Wallace.

Trump had called the leaks "deeply troubling". He said he is asking the Justice Department and other agencies to "launch a complete review of this matter".

In a statement, the New York Times defended its decision to publish the images, saying they were "neither graphic nor disrespectful of victims".

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Queen Elizabeth visited the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where some of the casualties have been treated, and was filmed chatting with a girl lying injured on a ward. She said the fans killed Monday will be on her mind and in her heart forever.

In addition to those killed, 116 people received medical treatment at Manchester hospitals for wounds from the blast.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said that only intelligence sharing relating to the Manchester probe had been suspended, adding that "we quite frankly can't afford to risk it any more".

She added Abedi began referring to others in the country as "infidels" who were "unjust to Arabs".

The intelligence agencies are racing to find other parts of a "network" that helped the suicide attacker, Salman Abedi, who had recently visited his family in Libya.

Abedi was a British man of Libyan origin who was born in 1994, Politico Europe reported.

"Very few people in the community here were close to him and therefore Salman's fanaticism wasn't something the community was aware of", he told the AP.

Akram Ramadan said Salman Abedi had been banned from Manchester's Didsbury Mosque, one of the largest in the city. Ramadan earlier claimed that he and his son were innocent and said, "We don't believe in killing innocents".

Abedi had been in Libya in the weeks before the attack, and German magazine Focus, citing unnamed federal security source, reported that he passed through Duesseldorf airport four days before the bombing.

Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi likely received some ISIS training by traveling to Syria in the months before the bombing, according to information gathered in the preliminary investigation into the attack, a United States official told CNN Thursday.


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