26 May, 2017
A British official said that Manchester police will stop sharing bombing investigation information with US amid fury over leaks. U.S. officials first caused outrage after they leaked the name of the attacker on Monday before Manchester police did so themselves. The following roads are now closed - Mancunian Way, Limby street and Jackson Street.
The BBC also reported Thursday that the police in Manchester had stopped sharing information about the investigation with the U.S. because of the ongoing leaks.
Abedi killed 22 and injured at least 64 when he detonated an improvised bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena in central Manchester on Monday night, where pop star Ariana Grande was performing.
Monday's bombing prompted United Kingdom authorities to deploy soldiers through out the city and raise the terror threat level to "critical", the highest of five levels for global terrorism, and at least two men have been arrested in connection to the attack, the Guardian reported.
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi spent his final moments before his attack in a rental apartment in the centre of Manchester.
Salman Abedi's father, Ramadan Abedi, has been arrested in Tripoli, along with his brother Hashim, who Libyan security forces said was "aware of all the details" of the attack.
The 23-year-old Ismail was reportedly arrested in Chorlton, south Manchester in connection with the attack on Tuesday.
Britain is on its second-highest alert level of "severe" meaning an attack by militants is considered highly likely. On Wednesday morning, an NBC reporter said he had heard from a USA intelligence official that Abedi's family had warned authorities about him in the past. The terror group claimed responsibility for the attack. The deployment, created to free up police officers to pursue the terrorists behind the attack, is the largest on the British mainland in decades.
The pictures published by the New York Times included remains of the bomb and of the rucksack carried by the suicide bomber, and showed blood stains amid the wreckage.
May will raise concerns over the leaks when she meets US President Trump at a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting on Thursday, the BBC reported.
On that call, he purportedly told his mother: "Forgive me", said Ahmed bin Salem, a spokesman for Libya's Special Deterrent Force.
Greater Manchester Police were said to be "furious" and said they would stop sharing information with the US.
The club says "given the heightened security threat announced by the government, and recognizing that this is a developing situation, we have given this careful consideration". "When that trust is breached it undermines these relationships and undermines our investigations".
Collomb told France's BFM television Abedi "grew up in Britain and then suddenly, after a trip to Libya and then likely to Syria, became radicalized and chose to carry out this attack".
One couple was waiting just outside the arena to pick up their daughter and granddaughter from the concert when the bomb went off.
