Salman Abedi identified as Manchester terror attacker

 

                           
he suspected suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured more than 100 at a concert in Manchester has been identified as a British-Libyan man name Salman Abedi.

Twenty-two people were killed – many of them expected to be young – after a bomb exploded at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena late on Monday night.

It is the worst terror attack on British soil since the 7/7 bombings in 2005.

Greater Manchester Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said detectives were working to establish whether Abedi, whose attack left 22 people dead, including an eight-year-old girl, was working alone.

He said: “I can confirm that the man suspected of carrying out last night’s atrocity has been named as 22-year-old Salman Abedi.

“However, he has not yet been formally identified and I wouldn’t wish, therefore, to comment further.

“The priority remains to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network.”

Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack – but the claim has yet to be verified.

Elsmore Road, where Abedi was registered as living, became the centre of the investigation into Monday’s outrage as detectives hunted those thought to be behind the blast.

According to the Telegraph, Abedi is the second youngest of four children.

His parents were Libyan refugees who are thought to have come to the UK during the Gaddafi regime.

The paper also reports that two of Abedi’s three siblings are called Hashem, who is 20, and Jomama, 18.

Abedi grew up in the Whalley Range area where earlier today police could be seen outside a block of flats.

In June 2014, it emerge that twin sisters, schoolgirls Salma and Zahra Halane, also form the Whalley Range area, had fled to join the so-called Islamic State where they had married jihadist fighters.

Local residents  who live on the red-bricked semi-detached street said they know little about the person or persons who reside at the address.      authorities have not named the suspected bomber, a US official – apparently briefed by British counterparts – identified him as Salmon Ramadan Abedi, according to NBC NewsBritish police had earlier requested the identity of the suspected bomber be keep secret.Plain clothes police officers outside the Morrison’s shopping centre in Chorlton, Manchester, where a man sought in connection with the Manchester bomb attack was arrested.

Salman Abedi identified as Manchester terror attacker