Manchester 'explosions': A 'number of fatalities' reported following Ariana Grande concert

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Stitch said:
I live 2 miles from the Manchester Arena. Concert goers were being given free hotel accomodation and locals offered up rooms for the night.To target teenagers and children is sickening. My heart goes out to the families.

Here’s a link to our local paper: manchestereveningnews.co.uk/
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If it’s what they are who they, it is just business as usual for them. They had done worse.

However, it’s a great tragedy and for them those children are just innocent collateral damage where lives are expendable for the sake of their cause.

We cannot imagine any human being can do such horror, and if it was really a suicide bomber, it also includes the expense of his/her own life.

We should be awaken from our slumber especially if it’s in the name of politically correct stance, that there are really such menace lurking in Western world brought about by the ideology of death instead of life.
 
I know children who have seen Ariana in the last few days, albeit in different cities. To think of little ones like that murdered in this way is horrendous.
 
I learned about this appalling suicide bombing late last night and arose to it again this morning before work. It makes my stomach turn. Not only is this the worst terrorist incident on British soil since 7/7 but unlike other terrorist events in major cities before this attack seems uniquely to have been aimed at children/youngsters 😦

One can only pray for the victims and their loved ones.
 
They seem to think it was a suicide terrorist attack. There isn’t any word yet on the identity of the attacker or his/her motivation. I’m anxiously awaiting more information about the attacker. I want to know if this was Islamic terrorism or something else.

Anyway, may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
 
Holly3278 said:
They seem to think it was a suicide terrorist attack. There isn’t any word yet on the identity of the attacker or his/her motivation. I’m anxiously awaiting more information about the attacker. I want to know if this was Islamic terrorism or something else.

Anyway, may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.
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From what I when gathered, investigators believe it was a lone wolf attack. I also think they know the identity of the attacker as well but so far have witheld from releasing any information on it thus far.
 
MindyO said:
No one has shown me any proof of anything in this topic; this is why I need to find out if anyone has any evidence that a bomb went off at this event.
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I knew you’d be in this thread, MindyO. Any terrorist attack is just “crisis actors,” you think, right? I asked you in the Russia subway attack thread some time ago and I will ask you again now – do you seriously consider as a reliable source YouTube conspiracy theory commentary from a channel that (completely seriously) claims to prove the earth is flat?

Praying for all those who have died and are injured – and for those families still trying to locate their children. So many young people among the victims. So terrible 😦
 
According to Reuters, Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Earlier on, their supporters had been celebrating it on Twitter.

The ISIS message referred to the bomber as a ‘Soldier of the Caliphate’. This could mean inspired rather than a directed attack but its unclear at the moment.
 
Latest:

theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england
**Officers in riot gear with guns have raided a flat on the Whalley Range/Chorlton border.
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More than a dozen officers in unmarked cars and police vans raided a flat at Royston Court in Carlton Road at about 12.20pm.
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The public were told to keep out of the way as the officers made their way to the flat on the tree-lined street. A large police presence remains in the area.
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Mr Hamed, who runs the Q2 management company, which maintains the buildings in the Whalley Range/Chorlton area of Manchester where a police raid is taking place in relation to the attack (see 12.40pm and 12.56pm), says a flat at the back end of the complex was raided close to the Spire Hospital. He was called to the building by a relative who lives in the flats. He said:
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*My daughter in law lives here and she rang me to say that police are here. All the people are living here are families. I can’t believe that. I did not know them personally but have a good number coming from outside the UK, like students, but we don’t have any people living on their own. It is not good news.
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We have students from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Libya and then families from Manchester. They are two-bed flats. They are from every race.***
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All entry points to the road have been cordoned off and residents are being held back by officers. It is understood the man who detonated the bomb lived in one of the flats at Royston Court in Carlton Road being raided by the police.
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Residents said the flats were built two years ago and are mainly occupied by refugees.
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I heard about it a little after 5:30 pm during the World News on CBS. Started searching online, and found it rather odd that it was not on the BBC yet. It was however on some of the British tabloids and the Manchester Evening News and Sky News, Independent, etc though, and of course RT, who I consider the world’s best major news source. Finally the BBC put it on, and I also found a live feed to Fox through British Sky News. Alot of people think FOX is some nasty racist extreme right wing news network, yet when a woman reporter from Sky started conducting a live interview with a young girl who had been at the concert, when she was asked if anyone suspected terrorism, Sheppard Smith (who had been silent) suddenly and loudly drowned her answers out by saying “We have at this time absolutely no reason to leave that this was an act of terrorism, etc, this is what police on the scene are saying, etc” Seems to now be a re-occurring theme, an act of terrorism occurs and the very first thing we hear is that it is not believed to be related to terrorism.
 
Seamus_L said:
I heard about it a little after 5:30 pm during the World News on CBS. Started searching online, and found it rather odd that it was not on the BBC yet. It was however on some of the British tabloids and the Manchester Evening News and Sky News, Independent, etc though, and of course RT, who I consider the world’s best major news source. Finally the BBC put it on, and I also found a live feed to Fox through British Sky News. Alot of people think FOX is some nasty racist extreme right wing news network, yet when a woman reporter from Sky started conducting a live interview with a young girl who had been at the concert, when she was asked if anyone suspected terrorism, Sheppard Smith (who had been silent) suddenly and loudly drowned her answers out by saying “We have at this time absolutely no reason to leave that this was an act of terrorism, etc, this is what police on the scene are saying, etc” Seems to now be a re-occurring theme, an act of terrorism occurs and the very first thing we hear is that it is not believed to be related to terrorism.
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Its reaction, people just don’t want to believe it could happen. That’s why they question it. But with up to the minute news coverage, it’s almost immediate news.
 
Second named victim: an 8 year old girl named Safie Roussos 😦

This is heartbreaking and leaves you speechless.
 
More on that house search by the police:

theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-ariana-grande-concert-explosion-england
**David Semple, chairman of the Manchester Conservative Federation said he had heard rumours that the suicide bomber may have lived in the flats in the Whalley Range/Chorlton area being raided by the police. He said:
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*We saw loads of police cars coming down the street and just followed them. Can’t believe it really.
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We heard he could be from here but not 100per cent. They are signing everyone out of the apartments now-it all feels very strange.
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Armed police remained at the scene and the gates to the complex remained locked. A mother and her newborn baby were allowed to leave the complex and she was met by her relatives but no-one else has been allowed to leave.***
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Hassan Swn, 26, a Palestinian student said police were not allowing residents to collect their cars. The project management graduate, said:
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I had a job interview but can’t go because they won’t let me get my car. They said something serious is happening but we don’t know exactly what it’s going on.
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Robert Booth has been speaking to a witness of today’s raid in south Manchester.
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Neil Labrow, a resident of the Royston Court apartment complex in Whalley Range, where armed police were engaged in a raid this lunch time, said he didn’t want to leave his flat while the police operation was ongoing.
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He said residents have been told by police they can leave, but that they will not be able to return to their homes until further notice.
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From his window he said he could see three officers in helmets and carrying guns “like you see them using at the airport”.
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He said the activity appeared to be focused on a recently built blocks of mostly two bedroom apartments.
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“There’s quite a turnover of population so you don’t get to know people,” he said, by phone.
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“There are quite a few Asian families, many students that bring their families over. It was a rough area but over the years it has got much better and there’s not much trouble.”
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Roseeurekacross said:
No group has claimed responsibility yet.

And I got to say, people in USA who say because you haven’t seen it on CNN, does that mean it didn’t happen? Is that your only news source.

Does media in Manchester itself, private iPhone witness, media in Australia etc not count?
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Please don’t feed the ignorant trolls, we are trying to get rid of them! News coverage has been quick and continuous since this horror occured.
 
After reading a number of online comments I’m beginning to suspect that the Ariana Grande concert was chosen for a terror attack, mainly because security measures were believed to be very lax.
 
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