Theresa May warns a fresh terror attack is feared to be IMMINENT as she raises threat level to critical and orders 5,000 troops onto the streets after attack by British-born Libyan Salman Abedi
Troops are to be deployed onto Britain’s streets amid fears a further terror attack ‘may be imminent’
Theresa May announced the move this evening, less than 24 hours after the bomb attack at a teen concert
Prime Minister confirmed the identity of the Manchester suicide bomber as British Libyan Salman Abedi, 22
There have been 22 confirmed fatalities in the blast, with the youngest just eight years old
It emerged late last night that schoolgirl Megan Hurley, from Liverpool, was the fifth named victim
By THOMAS BURROWS and SCOTT CAMPBELL
DailyMail.com
23 May 2017
Troops are to be deployed onto Britain’s streets amid fears a further terror attack ‘may be imminent’, the Prime Minister has announced.
Theresa May revealed the move this evening, less than 24 hours after the bomb attack at a teen concert in Manchester, which left 22 dead and 59 injured.
The Prime Minister confirmed the identity of the Manchester suicide bomber as 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a Mancunian of Libyan descent.
But intelligence agencies fear he may not have acted alone – leaving open the possibility of an active Islamist terror cell on the loose.
Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre last night raised the terror threat level to ‘critical’, its highest level.
The threat level has only been raised to ‘critical’ twice since the system was introduced on August 1, 2006.
It came after the worst UK atrocity since 2005, when a nail bomber murdered 22 concert-goers as young as eight at an Ariana Grande concert.
Abedi, a Mancunian of Libyan descent, was the son of an airport security worker, MailOnline can reveal.
Police yesterday carried out a controlled explosion at the doorstep of his home during raids around the city. Forensics officers were seen emerging from the killer’s property carrying a booklet called Know Your Chemicals.
Police also raided a house where Abedi’s brother Ismail, lived and the 23-year-old was arrested outside a Morrison’s in the Chorlton area of Manchester.
Eight of the 22 victims have been named as college student Georgina Callander, eight-year-old schoolgirl Saffie Roussos, 26-year-old John Atkinson, Kelly Brewster, 32, Megan Hurley, Alison Howe, 45, Lisa Lees, 43, and Olivia Campbell, 15.
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