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Manchester Arena bombing
Part of Terrorism in the United Kingdom
The exterior of 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
Coordinates53°29′17.3″N 2°14′34″W / 53.488139°N 2.24278°W / 53.488139; -2.24278
Date22 May 2017 (2017-05-22)
around 22:30 (BST)
TargetConcert-goers
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Deaths23 (including the attacker)
Injured116 (23 critical)
AssailantsSalman Ramadan Abedi

On 22 May 2017, a suicide bombing was carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, after a concert by American singer Ariana Grande. The attacker was identified by police as Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan ancestry who detonated a shrapnel-laden improvised explosive device at the exit as concertgoers were leaving. Twenty-three adults and children, including the bomber, were killed and 116 were injured, some critically. The bomber was suspected of being helped by a network, and eleven people were arrested in connection with the incident, including his brother and possibly his cousin.

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 to act as shrapnel, in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena. The attack took place after an Ariana Grande concert that was part of her 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour.[2][3] The concert was sold out, and up to 21,000 people attended.[4] Many exiting concert-goers and waiting parents were in the foyer at the time of the explosion.

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.[5]

Aftermath

About three hours after the bombing, a controlled explosion was conducted by police on a suspicious item in Cathedral Gardens,[6] later found to be an item of clothing.[7]

Residents and taxi companies in Manchester offered free transport or accommodation via Twitter to those left stranded at the concert.[8] 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.[9] Manchester's Sikh temples (Gurdwaras) along with local homeowners, hotels and venues offered shelter to victims of the attack.[10]

Manchester Victoria railway station, which is partly underneath the arena, was evacuated and closed, and services were cancelled.[2][11] The explosion caused structural damage to the station, which will remain closed until the damage has been assessed and repaired, resulting in significant disruption to train and tram services.[12]

The Arndale shopping centre was evacuated for a time during an unrelated arrest on the day following the attack.[13] A second brief evacuation of a Salford University building occurred at about 4:00 pm.[14]

After a COBRA meeting with Greater Manchester's Chief Constable, Ian Hopkins, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the UK's terror threat level[15] was being raised to "critical", its highest level.[16] The threat level remained critical until 27 May 2017, when it was reduced to its previous level of severe. In the aftermath of the attack Operation Temperer was activated for the first time, allowing up to 5,000 soldiers to reinforce armed police in protecting parts of the country.[17][18][19] Tours of the Houses of Parliament and the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace were cancelled on the following day, and troops were deployed to guard government buildings in London.[20]

On 23 May, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant made a claim of responsibility for the attack,[21][22] describing the attacker as "a soldier of the Caliphate".[23]

Casualties

The blast killed the attacker, and 22 concert-goers and parents who were in the entrance waiting to pick up their children following the show. 116 people were injured.[24] A total of 75 people remained in hospital as of 26 May 2017, 23 of them, including five children, in critical care.[25] The dead included ten people under 20, the youngest being an eight-year-old girl.[24]

North West Ambulance Service reported that 60 of its ambulances attended the scene, carried 59 people to local hospitals, and treated a number of walking wounded on site.[26] Of those hospitalised, 12 were reported to be children under the age of 16.

Attacker

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Abedi photographed at a mosque several years before the attack.

The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old Briton from a Salafist family.[27][28] He was born in Manchester on 31 December 1994 to a family of Islamist-orientated refugees from Libya who had settled in south Manchester after becoming opponents of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi.[29][30] He grew up in the Whalley Range area and lived in Fallowfield.[31] He attended the Burnage Academy for Boys, in which he was among a group of students who accused a teacher of Islamophobia for criticising suicide bombing.[32][33] Neighbours described the Abedi family as being very traditional and "super religious."[34]

He was known to British security services but was not regarded as a high risk.[35] A community worker told the BBC he had called a hotline five years before the bombing to warn police about Abedi's views and members of Britain’s Libyan diaspora said they had "warned authorities for years" about Manchester's Islamist radicalisation.[36][37] Abedi was allegedly reported to authorities about his extremism, by as many as five people, including community leaders and possibly family members.[38][39][40]

Abedi's parents, both born in Tripoli, returned to Libya in 2011 following the NATO-backed killing of Muammar Gaddafi,[31] while Abedi stayed in the United Kingdom. Abedi attended Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester between 2009 and 2011, before going to the Manchester College until 2013 and then in 2014 enrolled at the University of Salford, where he studied business management. Abedi later dropped out to work in a bakery.[29] According to an acquaintance, Abedi was "outgoing" and consumed alcohol until 2012. Another acquaintance said Abedi was a "regular kid who went out and drank" until about 2016.[41] According to the BBC, "Friends remember him as a good footballer, a keen supporter of Manchester United and a user of cannabis. He had a sister and two brothers."[29]

Abedi's sister said he may have been motivated by revenge for Muslim children killed by American airstrikes in Syria.[42][43]

Abedi, his elder brother,[44] and his father worshipped at Didsbury Mosque.[35][31] A senior person at the mosque recalled that Abedi looked at him "with hate" after he preached against ISIS and Ansar al-Sharia in 2015.[45]

Investigation

Bombing location map.

The property in Fallowfield where Abedi lived was raided on 23 May. Armed police breached the house with a controlled explosion and searched it. Abedi's 23-year-old brother was arrested in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in south Manchester in relation to the attack.[46][47] Police carried out raids in two other areas of south Manchester and another address in the Whalley Range area.[47] Three other men were arrested, and police spoke of a likely "network" supporting the bomber.[36]

According to German intelligence, Abedi had returned to the UK from Turkey four days prior to the attack.[48] French interior minister Gérard Collomb told a French TV channel that Abedi may have been to Syria, and had "proven" links with ISIS. Abedi's father was arrested by the Libyan authorities on 23 May,[contradictory] and his younger brother the following day. The brother was suspected of planning an attack in Libya, and was said to be in regular touch with Salman, and aware of the plan to bomb the Manchester Arena,[49] but not the date.[25] According to a Libyan official, the brothers spoke on the phone about 15 minutes before the attack was carried out.[50]

Photographs of the remains of the IED published by The New York Times indicated that it had comprised an explosive charge inside a lightweight metal container which was carried within a black vest or a blue Karrimor backpack. Most of the fatalities occurred in a ring around the bomber. His torso was propelled by the blast through the doors to the arena, possibly indicating that the explosive charge was held in the backpack and blew him forward on detonation. A small device thought to have possibly been a hand-held detonator was also found.[51] US Congressman Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, indicated that the bomb contained the explosive TATP, which has been used in previous bombings.[52] According to Manchester police, the explosive device used by Abedi was the design of a skilled bomb-maker and had a back-up means of detonation.[53]

As of 27 May 2017, thirteen people had been arrested, of whom eleven remained in police custody.[54] The arrests and raids were as follows:

  • Tuesday 23 May
    • Abedi's older brother arrested and flat raided in Royston Court, Whalley Range, Manchester.[55]
    • Salman Abedi's house in Elsmore Road, Manchester raided.[55]
  • Wednesday 24 May
    • 34-year-old woman arrested at Somerton Court, Blackley, Manchester. Released without charge.[55]
    • Rental flat in Granby Street, Manchester raided.[55]
    • Three men aged 18 to 24 arrested in Fallowfield, Manchester.[56]
    • 22-year-old man arrested in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.[55]
    • 33-year-old man arrested in Wigan after being detained with a suspicious package.
    • House in Springfield Street, Wigan raided.[55]
    • Abedi's father[contradictory] and younger brother arrested in Tripoli, Libya.[55]
  • Thursday 25 May
    • 16-year-old boy arrested in Withington, Manchester. Released without charge.[55]
  • Friday 26 May
  • Saturday 27 May

News leaks

Within hours of the attack, Abedi's name and other information given confidentially to security services in the United States and France was leaked to the news media, leading to condemnation from Home Secretary Amber Rudd.[57][58] The BBC reported that the UK government and police reacted with "fury" following the publication of crime scene photographs of the backpack bomb used in the attack, which appeared in the 24 May edition of The New York Times, saying that the release of the material was detrimental to the investigation.[59] On 25 May, Greater Manchester Police said that it had stopped sharing information on the attack with the US intelligence services. Prime Minister Theresa May said she would make clear to President Trump that "intelligence that has been shared must be made secure."[60] Trump described the leaks to the news media as "deeply troubling", and pledged to carry out a full investigation.[61] British officials blamed the leaks on "the breakdown of normal discipline at the White House and in the US security services".[62] The New York Times editor Dean Baquet declined to apologise for publishing the backpack bomb photographs, saying "We live in different press worlds", and denied that the material was classified at the highest level.[63]

Reactions

Main article: Reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing

United Kingdom

British military personnel alongside armed police as part of Operation Temperer in response to the raised threat level.

Prime Minister Theresa May and Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn both condemned the bombing,[64][65] while the Queen expressed her sympathy to the families of the victims.[66] Campaigning for the general election was suspended by all political parties for two days after the attack.[67][68] The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, called the attack "evil"[69] and announced a vigil to be held in Albert Square the following evening.[70] Burnham, Corbyn, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow and Home Secretary Amber Rudd were in attendance.[71] British Muslim groups, such as the Muslim Council of Britain[72] condemned the attack.

On 24 May 2017, Theresa May raised the threat level to critical for the first time since 2007, meaning "not only that an attack remains highly likely but a further attack may be imminent".[73] It was reset back to severe (meaning than an attack is "highly likely") on 27 May after "significant activity" by the police had reduced the degree of risk.[74]

On 25 May 2017, a national minute's silence was observed to remember the victims.[75]

International

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Burj Khalifa illuminated with the colours of the Union Flag in solidarity with the UK, 23 May

Condolences were expressed by the leaders and governments of dozens of countries,[76] United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres,[77] Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland,[78] President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker,[79] Pope Francis,[80] and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Yousef Al-Othaimeen.[81]

Ariana Grande posted on her official Twitter account: "broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words."[82] Grande subsequently suspended her tour and returned home to Florida.[83][84] She later announced that she would host a benefit concert in Manchester for the victims of the attack.[85]

On 25 May during the 2017 NATO summit, President of the United States Donald Trump linked large-scale immigration to the terror attack and stated that NATO should "include a great focus on terrorism and immigration."[86]

See also

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