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Ismail Abedi, the brother of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, has been released without charge. | Ismail Abedi, the brother of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, has been released without charge. |
The 24-year-old was arrested after the attack at Manchester Arena, as police looked for evidence of a terror network in the area. | |
A total of 18 people were arrested after the suicide attack on 22 May that killed 22 people and injured 116 as they left an Ariana Grande concert. | |
Ten men still remain in custody. | |
Attacker Abedi, 22, detonated a home-made bomb in the arena's foyer just after 22:30 BST. | |
The blast killed young people attending the event and friends and family who were waiting to meet them. | |
Abedi was one of three siblings and was born in Manchester to a family of Libyan origin. | |
His older brother, Ismail, was arrested the day after the bombing after a raid by police in Whalley Range, but was released without charge on Monday. | |
Abedi's younger brother Hasham, 20, was detained in Tripoli on suspicion of links with the so-called Islamic State group on the same day. | |
Reuters news agency told the BBC that Abedi's father, Ramadan, had also been detained in Libya. |
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