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UK police make new arrest over Manchester concert bombing

UK police make new arrest over Manchester concert bombing | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - This is a Tuesday May 23, 2017 file photo of a couple as they embrace under a billboard in Manchester in England Tuesday May 23, 2017, the day after the suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert that left more than 20 people dead . British police said Thursday July 6, 2017, that the man who bombed an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester wasn't part of a large network, but other people involved in the attack may still be at large. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/File)
Original Publication Date: July 7, 2017 1:06AM
Publication Updated: April 25, 2025 6:20PM

LONDON – British police say they have arrested a 19-year-old man over the Manchester concert bombing, as the hunt continues for accomplices of attacker Salman Abedi.

The Greater Manchester Police force says the man was arrested Friday at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport on suspicion of terrorism offences. He is being held in custody.

Twenty-two people were killed May 22 when Abedi, a Briton of Libyan heritage, detonated a homemade knapsack bomb as crowds were leaving an Ariana Grande concert.

In the days after the attack, police arrested 22 people on suspicion of terrorism offences, but all were subsequently released without charge.

Counterterrorism police chief Russ Jackson said Thursday that Abedi wasn’t part of a large network, but police suspect others “were either aware or complicit in the knowledge of this attack.”

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