‘Trainee Libyan pilot’, 23, is 16th suspect arrested in connection with Manchester concert bombing as mourners flock to St Ann’s Square to mark a week since the tragedy
Man from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, is 16th person to be arrested in connection with Monday’s attack
Greater Manchester Police says searches were conducted overnight in Chester, Cheshire and Manchester
Teenager, 19, was arrested yesterday in Gorton area of Manchester as officers continue to probe attack
By JAYA NARAIN and PADDY DINHAM
DailyMail.com
29 May 2017
The 23-year-old man arrested over the Manchester bombing more than 250 miles away from the scene was studying to become a pilot, it was claimed today.
The suspect was detained at a home in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, and he is the 16th person to be arrested in connection with the atrocity last Monday that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured more than 100.
Residents said that the man, who has been named locally as Aladine, was training to become a pilot and lived in a flat on a parade of shops just five minutes from the seafront, which was being searched by officers today.
Meanwhile hordes of mourners, well-wishers and young people personally affected by the Manchester terror attack have marked the week since the tragedy by flocking to an unofficial memorial to the dead and injured.
He would have his hair done at Violet’s Hairdresser’s below and was known as a sociable and friendly neighbour. Its owner Violet Mainda said: ‘He was a young Libyan guy who was always very jovial and nice.
‘He said he was training to be a pilot at Shoreham Airfield and he had just completed doing that. I am really, really shocked by this. I can’t believe he had been arrested.
‘He had a few friends and a girlfriend and always seemed very nice. I don’t know if he worked, I think he just studied to be a pilot. He said he was studying to become a pilot at Shoreham.’
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