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| fatalities = 23 (including the attacker)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gmp.police.uk/Live/Nhoodv3.nsf/TriageWebsitePages/5C071E8A3B6E6761802581290023AD7E?OpenDocument|title=Greater Manchester Police|website=www.gmp.police.uk}}</ref>
| fatalities = 23 (including the attacker)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gmp.police.uk/Live/Nhoodv3.nsf/TriageWebsitePages/5C071E8A3B6E6761802581290023AD7E?OpenDocument|title=Greater Manchester Police|website=www.gmp.police.uk}}</ref>
| injuries = 64+<!--early sources stated 59, other sources are stating 120--><ref name = "Manchester Evening News">{{cite news|title=22 dead, 120 injured in suicide bomber attack at Manchester Arena and three victims named - live updates|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-arena-bombing-live-attack-13075807|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]|accessdate=23 May 2017|date=23 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Eden|first1=Tom|title=Manchester bombing attack: Suspected suicide bomber named as Salman Ramadan Abedi, 22 dead and 120 injured in atrocity|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/manchester-bombing-attack-arena-explosion-13075830|website=chronicle.live.com|publisher=''[[Evening Chronicle]]''|accessdate=23 May 2017|date=23 May 2017}}</ref>
| injuries = 120+<!--59 were hospitalised; paramedics also treated 60 "walking wounded at the scene; there were also several people who went home with untreated injuries but went to A&E afterwards--><ref name = "Manchester Evening News">{{cite news|title=22 dead, 120 injured in suicide bomber attack at Manchester Arena and three victims named - live updates|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-arena-bombing-live-attack-13075807|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]|accessdate=23 May 2017|date=23 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="chronicle">{{cite web|last1=Eden|first1=Tom|title=Manchester bombing attack: Suspected suicide bomber named as Salman Ramadan Abedi, 22 dead and 120 injured in atrocity|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/manchester-bombing-attack-arena-explosion-13075830|website=chronicle.live.com|publisher=''[[Evening Chronicle]]''|accessdate=23 May 2017|date=23 May 2017}}</ref>
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| assailants = Omar "Bilal" Khadafi<ref name="guardmosque"/><ref>{{cite tweet |user= gmpolice|number=867056194199990273 |date=23 May 2017 |title=Latest statement from @ccianhopkins in relation to last night's attack. |author=Greater Manchester Police |author-link=Greater Manchester Police}}</ref><ref name=bbc40020168>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40020168|title=Manchester attack: Salman Abedi named as bomber by police|date=23 May 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=24 May 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>
| assailants = Omar "Bilal" Khadafi<ref name="guardmosque"/><ref>{{cite tweet |user= gmpolice|number=867056194199990273 |date=23 May 2017 |title=Latest statement from @ccianhopkins in relation to last night's attack. |author=Greater Manchester Police |author-link=Greater Manchester Police}}</ref><ref name=bbc40020168>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40020168|title=Manchester attack: Salman Abedi named as bomber by police|date=23 May 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=24 May 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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On 22 May 2017, a [[suicide bombing]] was carried out at the [[Manchester Arena]] in [[Manchester]], England, after a [[Dangerous Woman Tour|concert]] by American singer [[Ariana Grande]]. The attacker, identified by police as Salman Abedi,<ref name="guardmosque"/><ref name="nytident">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html?_r=0|title=Salman Abedi, 22, Is Identified as Manchester Arena Bomber|date=23 May 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=23 May 2017}}</ref> a 22-year-old British citizen of [[Libya]]n descent, detonated an [[improvised explosive device]] as concertgoers were leaving the arena. The explosion killed 23 people, including Abedi, and injured 64 others.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Phipps|first1=Claire|title=Soldiers on British streets as threat level raised to critical – as it happened|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england|accessdate=24 May 2017|publisher=Guardian|date=24 May 2017}}</ref>
On 22 May 2017, a [[suicide bombing]] was carried out at the [[Manchester Arena]] in [[Manchester]], England, after a [[Dangerous Woman Tour|concert]] by American singer [[Ariana Grande]]. The attacker, identified by police as Salman Abedi,<ref name="guardmosque"/><ref name="nytident">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html?_r=0|title=Salman Abedi, 22, Is Identified as Manchester Arena Bomber|date=23 May 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=23 May 2017}}</ref> a 22-year-old British citizen of [[Libya]]n descent, detonated an [[improvised explosive device]] as concertgoers were leaving the arena. The explosion killed 23 people, including Abedi, and injured more than 120 others.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Phipps|first1=Claire|title=Soldiers on British streets as threat level raised to critical – as it happened|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england|accessdate=24 May 2017|publisher=Guardian|date=24 May 2017}}</ref>


==Attack==
==Attack==
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==Casualties==
==Casualties==
Police stated that 23 people, including the suicide bomber, were killed in the blast and 64 others injured, including children.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40020168|title=Manchester attack: Salman Abedi named as bomber by police|publisher=BBC News|date=23 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author= Samantha Beech & Darran Simon|title=Manchester Arena attack: 22 dead after blast at Ariana Grande concert|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/europe/manchester-arena-incident/index.html|accessdate=23 May 2017|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author= Mike Bambach|title=British police: 22 dead after suicide bomber attack at Ariana Grande concert|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/05/22/British-police-At-least-19-dead-after-possible-terrorist-incident-at-Ariana-Grande-concert/2331495492944/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=1|accessdate=23 May 2017|agency=United Press International}}</ref> [[North West Ambulance Service]] reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, escorting 64 people to local hospitals and treating a number of [[walking wounded]] on site.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england?page=with:block-5923c1a4e4b0ca009308f17f|title=Manchester Arena: children among 22 dead in suicide attack at Ariana Grande concert – latest|first1=Claire Phipps|last1=(now)|first2=Kevin Rawlinson|last2=(earlier)|date=23 May 2017|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|accessdate=23 May 2017}}</ref> Of the injured, 12 were reported to be children under the age of 16.<ref name="BBC-attack-23-05-2017" />
Police stated that 23 people, including the suicide bomber, were killed in the blast and at least 120 others were injured, of whom 59 were hospitalised.<ref name = "Manchester Evening News"/><ref name="chronicle"/> [[North West Ambulance Service]] reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, escorting 59 people to local hospitals and treating a number of [[walking wounded]] on site.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england?page=with:block-5923c1a4e4b0ca009308f17f|title=Manchester Arena: children among 22 dead in suicide attack at Ariana Grande concert – latest|first1=Claire Phipps|last1=(now)|first2=Kevin Rawlinson|last2=(earlier)|date=23 May 2017|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|accessdate=23 May 2017}}</ref> Of the hospitalised, 12 were reported to be children under the age of 16.<ref name="BBC-attack-23-05-2017" />


== Perpetrator ==
== Perpetrator ==

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2017 Manchester Arena bombing
The exterior of the Manchester Arena in 2010
Manchester Arena bombing is located in Greater Manchester
Manchester Arena
Manchester Arena
Manchester Arena bombing (Greater Manchester)
Manchester Arena bombing is located in the United Kingdom
Manchester Arena bombing
Manchester Arena bombing (the United Kingdom)
LocationManchester, England
Date22 May 2017 (2017-05-22)
around 22:30[1] (BST)
TargetCivilians[2]
Attack type
Suicide bombing
WeaponsIED[3]
Deaths23 (including the attacker)[4]
Injured120+[5][6]
AssailantsOmar "Bilal" Khadafi[7][8][9]

On 22 May 2017, a suicide bombing was carried out at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, after a concert by American singer Ariana Grande. The attacker, identified by police as Salman Abedi,[7][10] a 22-year-old British citizen of Libyan descent, detonated an improvised explosive device as concertgoers were leaving the arena. The explosion killed 23 people, including Abedi, and injured more than 120 others.[11]

Attack

On 22 May 2017, at around 22:30 BST (UTC+01:00),[1] a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device packed with nuts and bolts in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. The attack took place after an Ariana Grande concert that was part of her 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour.[12][13] The concert was sold out, and up to 21,000 people may have attended.[14] Many of the people were exiting through the foyer at the time of the explosion and were gathered there to buy concert merchandise.[15][16]

Greater Manchester Police declared the incident a terrorist attack, identifying it as a suicide bombing. It was the deadliest attack in the United Kingdom since the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the first in Manchester since the 1996 Manchester bombing by the Provisional IRA.[17]

Casualties

Police stated that 23 people, including the suicide bomber, were killed in the blast and at least 120 others were injured, of whom 59 were hospitalised.[5][6] North West Ambulance Service reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, escorting 59 people to local hospitals and treating a number of walking wounded on site.[18] Of the hospitalised, 12 were reported to be children under the age of 16.[19]

Perpetrator

The attacker was identified by officials as a 22-year-old British man, Salman Ramadan Abedi, who was known to the security services.[10][7] He was born in Manchester on 31 December 1994 to a family of refugees from Libya who settled in south Manchester.[20][21][22][10] He grew up in the Whalley Range area and lived in Fallowfield, a suburb of Manchester.[23] The third of four children. Salman and his brother were known to worship at Didsbury Mosque, where their father, a security officer, was claimed to be a well-known person.[7][23] However, a trustee of the mosque denied this and said, "We don't know who he is. We've never seen him."[24]

In 2014, Abedi became a student at the University of Salford, where he studied business management before dropping out. His parents, both born in Tripoli, returned to Libya in 2011 following Muammar Gaddafi’s removal from power,[23] while Abedi stayed in the United Kingdom. Abedi had worked at a bakery, and his friends remembered him to be a skilled footballer and a user of cannabis.[20] He had reportedly been involved with gangs and later radical Islam before the bombing. He had drawn attention to himself in 2015 by complaining after a sermon against terrorism and about the sanctity of life.[24]

Investigation

The property in Fallowfield where Abedi lived became a focus of the police investigation following the bombing. Armed police breached the house with a controlled explosion and raided it. A 23-year-old man was arrested in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in south Manchester in relation to the attack.[25][26] Police carried out operations in two other areas of south Manchester and raided another address in the Whalley Range area.[26]

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd said that she was "irritated" that Abedi's name had been leaked to the media by news reports from the United States within hours of the bombing, citing the need for investigators to avoid alerting potential associates of the attacker.[27]

Aftermath

Later on the night of the bombing, at approximately 01:32 BST, a controlled explosion was conducted by police on a suspicious item in Cathedral Gardens.[19] The item was later determined to be an item of clothing that had been left behind.[28]

Residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation via Twitter to those left stranded at the concert.[15] Parents of children attending the concert were separated in the aftermath of the explosion. A nearby hotel served as a shelter for children displaced by the bombing, with their parents being directed there by officials.[29]

Manchester Victoria railway station, which is partly underneath the arena, was evacuated and closed, and services were cancelled. Victoria station remained closed into the following day.[12][30]

The Trafford Centre and the Arndale Centre shopping malls were also reportedly evacuated for a time after a suspicious package was found,[31] Salford University's Park Peel campus in Manchester was also briefly evacuated after a false alarm of a suspicious package.[32]

After a COBRA meeting with Greater Manchester's Chief Constable, Ian Hopkins, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK's terror threat level was being raised to "critical", its highest level.[33] Following the raising of the terror threat level, Operation Temperer was activated for the first time, allowing 5,000 soldiers to replace armed police in protecting parts of the country.[34][35] Tours of the Parliament were cancelled, the traditional guard changing ceremony and the military took over policing for the Prime Minister.[36]

Reactions

Main article: Reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing

Domestic

The Prime Minister, Theresa May and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn condemned the bombing,[37][38] while Queen Elizabeth II expressed her sympathy to the families of the victims.[39] Campaigning for the general election was suspended by all political parties for two days after the attack.[40][41][42] The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, called the attack "evil"[43] and announced a vigil to be held in Albert Square the following evening.[44] The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, condemned the attack with a written letter he posted on his social media accounts.[45] After attending a second emergency COBRA meeting in Whitehall, Prime Minister Theresa May announced the UK terror threat level has risen to Critical, meaning an attack is expected imminently.[46][47]

International

Condolences were expressed by the leaders and governments of dozens of countries,[48] United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres,[49] Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland,[50] President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker,[51] Pope Francis[52] and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Yousef Al-Othaimeen.[53]

See also

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