28 May, 2017
Greater Manchester Police say two men were arrested overnight in Manchester and in the Withington area in the south of the city.
Contacted by AFP, Greater Manchester Police declined to comment on the BBC report.
Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British-born man with Libyan parents, blew himself up on Monday night at the Manchester Arena indoor venue after a concert by US singer Ariana Grande, whose fans are mostly children and teenagers. Meanwhile, Libyan militia this week arrested Salman Abedi's younger brother Hashim and his father Ramadan, who returned to Libya from Britain in 2011 following the ouster of dictator Muammar Gadhafi.
A police statement didn't provide any details about why the man was arrested, but noted that the department's investigation of Monday's bombing after an Ariana Grande concert was "fast-moving". Armed police officers and soldiers were deployed at soccer matches, concerts and other big events.
A German intelligence official said, "we must clarify whether Abedi knew people in Syria who he met" in Germany.
"This is until such time as we have assurances that no further unauthorised disclosures will occur", said the counter-terrorism source.
Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to confront President Donald Trump about these leaks when the two meet at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels today.
Britain's terror threat assessment has been hiked to "critical", the highest level, meaning an attack is considered imminent.
The explosion, which happened just after Grande's concert Monday night, killed 22 people and injured 59, including children and teens.
United Kingdom broadcaster Sky News aired two screengrabs of security camera footage, reporting that British police believed they showed Abedi walking in Manchester's Arndale shopping centre late on Friday. Profits will go to a fund for the families of the victims.
Specifically, under the Five Eyes Intelligence agreement, the information is shared with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They continue to investigate the suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, and his suspected links to a wider extremist "network". Much of the summit is expected to be about terrorism in the wake of the attack in Manchester.
The force said in a statement: "We immediately established full command and control of the incident and within an hour of the attack taking place a specialist counter terrorism control room had been established with a first priority of identifying the attacker".
