Suicide bomber who slaughtered 22 ‘was known to police and was caught on CCTV’: Details of attacker emerge as arrests are made across Manchester over arena massacre
Police trying to establish who carried out attack at Manchester Arena last night
Examining whether the suicide bomber was a ‘lone wolf’ or part of a terror cell
Terrorist was killed in the blast as he murdered 22 after Ariana Grande concert
Understood to have arrived at a nearby train station before detonating device
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in Manchester in connection with attack
ISIS claimed today that one of its fanatics was responsible for the massacre
By JULIAN ROBINSON
DailyMail.com
23 May 2017
This is the dramatic moment anti-terror police swooped to arrest a man over last night’s suicide bomb atrocity at Manchester Arena.
Pictures show non-uniform officers wearing masks to conceal their faces arresting a 23-year-old man outside a Morrisons supermarket in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, south Manchester this morning.
The arrest came hours after a suicide bomber slaughtered 22 and injured 119 after an Ariana Grande concert and as police tried to determine whether the attacker had accomplices as part of a wider terror cell.
Separate pictures later emerged showing a large presence of police, including armed officers outside an address just a mile from the arrest.
ISIS has since claimed responsibility and threatened further attacks, saying ‘one of the caliphate’s soldiers placed bombs within a gathering of the Crusaders’. There are unconfirmed reports this afternoon that the terrorist was British and that he may have been known to police before the massacre.
Officers are combing CCTV to determine whether the attacker carried out a ‘recce’ of the arena before detonating a nail bomb as thousands were leaving the concert at 10.30pm.
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