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Manchester attack: Salman Abedi named as bomber by police | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Salman Abedi has been named by police as the suspected suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured 59 at Manchester Arena on Monday night. | |
The BBC understands the 22-year-old was Manchester born and from a family of Libyan origin. | |
So far three victims have been named - Saffie Rose Roussos, eight, Georgina Callander and John Atkinson, 28. | |
Greater Manchester Police said the priority was to establish whether Abedi had worked alone or not. | |
Abedi is thought to have blown himself up in the arena's foyer shortly after 22:30 BST on Monday, as fans were beginning to leave a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. | |
Abedi, who had at least three siblings, had lived at several addresses in Manchester, including a property at Elsmore Road, Fallowfield, which was earlier raided by police. | |
Controlled explosion | |
Armed police have also arrested a 23-year-old man in Chorlton, south Manchester, in connection with the attack. | |
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said searches at two addresses had been carried out, including the one in Fallowfield, where a controlled explosion had been used to gain "safe" access. | |
He said Abedi had not been formally identified and so would not comment further. | |
Mr Hopkins passed on "heartfelt sympathies to all the innocent people caught up in last night's despicable act", adding that specially-trained family liaison officers were supporting families. | |
Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos was a pupil at Tarleton Primary School, in Lancashire. | |
Her head teacher, Chris Upton, said she had been "simply a beautiful little girl in every aspect of the word" and was "loved by everyone". | |
Student Georgina Callander, believed to have been 18, has also been named as among the dead. | |
She had been studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire. | |
The wounded are being treated at eight hospitals around the city, with 12 children under the age of 16 among them. | |
Several people are still missing, including teenagers Laura MacIntyre and Eilidh MacLeod, from Barra in the Outer Hebrides, 15-year-old Olivia Campbell, Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19. | |
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said police were in contact with Laura and Eilidh's families, adding: "It is hard for any of us to imagine the anguish that their families are going through right now. | |
"They are in our thoughts." | |
In a statement in Downing Street on Tuesday, the prime minister said the bombing had been a "callous terrorist attack" that targeted "defenceless young people". | |
Number 10 later said Mrs May - who is now in Manchester - had been updated "through [Monday] night" and had phoned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at 04:00 BST to brief him. | |
It is the worst terrorist attack in the UK since the 7 July bombings in 2005, in which 52 people were killed by four suicide bombers. | |
So-called Islamic State has said - via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram - it was behind the Manchester attack, but this has not been verified. |