LONDON, May 25:
Two more men were arrested today by the UK police after searches in Manchester in connection with a deadly suicide bombing at a pop concert this week, taking the total number of men in custody to eight.
All the previous arrests were made in and around Manchester where the suicide bombing took place on Monday.
“We have been carrying out searches at an address in the Withington area and a man has been arrested. These searches are connected to Monday’s attack on the Manchester Arena. Another man has been arrested in the Manchester area in connection with this investigation, bringing the total number of men in custody to eight,” Greater Manchester Police said.
A woman, whose identity was not known, arrested last night in connection with the deadliest attack in Britain since the 2005 London bombings, was released a few hours later.
The arrests came after detectives carried out a controlled explosion as they searched a property in the Moss Side area of Manchester in the early hours of Thursday.
They continue to investigate the suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, and his suspected links to a wider extremist “network”.
His father, Ramadan Abedi, and brother, Hashim, have also been arrested in Libya. Another brother, 23-year-old Ismail, was arrested on Tuesday in Manchester.
The anti-terror force that took Hashim into custody in Libya said the teenager had confessed that both he and his brother, Salman, were members of the Islamic State group and that he “knew all the details” of the Manchester attack plot.
A spokesperson for the Libyan authorities told BBC: “His brother felt there was something going on there in Manchester and he thought his brother would do something like bombing or attack.” (PTI)
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