{"id":391838,"date":"2017-05-23T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/23\/manchester-attack-salman-abedi-named-as-bomber-by-police\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:55:50","slug":"manchester-attack-salman-abedi-named-as-bomber-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/23\/manchester-attack-salman-abedi-named-as-bomber-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester attack: Salman Abedi named as bomber by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old was Manchester born and from a family of Libyan origin, the BBC understands.<\/p>\n

So far three victims have been named \u2013 Saffie Rose Roussos, eight, Georgina Callander and John Atkinson, 28.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police said the priority was to establish whether Abedi had worked alone or not.<\/p>\n

A vigil is being held in front of the town hall in Manchester\u2019s Albert Square.<\/p>\n

\u2018Vigil for peace\u2019 at Manchester\u2019s Albert Square<\/p>\n

Abedi is thought to have blown himself up in the arena\u2019s foyer shortly after 22:30 BST on Monday, as fans were beginning to leave a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins passed on \u201cheartfelt sympathies to all the innocent people caught up in last night\u2019s despicable act\u201d, adding that specially-trained family liaison officers were supporting families.<\/p>\n

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Image caption<\/span>John Atkinson was the third victim named<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos was a pupil at Tarleton Primary School, in Lancashire.<\/p>\n

Her head teacher, Chris Upton, said she had been \u201csimply a beautiful little girl in every aspect of the word\u201d and was \u201cloved by everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n

John Atkinson was from Bury in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

Student Georgina Callander, believed to have been 18, has also been named as among the dead.<\/p>\n

She had been studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire.<\/p>\n

The wounded are being treated at eight hospitals around the city, with 12 children under the age of 16 among them.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said police were in contact with Laura and Eilidh\u2019s families, adding: \u201cIt is hard for any of us to imagine the anguish that their families are going through right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are in our thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement in Downing Street on Tuesday, the prime minister said the bombing had been a \u201ccallous terrorist attack\u201d that targeted \u201cdefenceless young people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Number 10 later said Mrs May \u2013 who is now in Manchester \u2013 had been updated \u201cthrough [Monday] night\u201d and had phoned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at 04:00 BST to brief him.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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So-called Islamic State has said \u2013 via IS channels on the messaging app Telegram \u2013 it was behind the Manchester attack, but this has not been verified.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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