Ariana Grande Cancels Upcoming Shows After Manchester Attack

Police said three suspects were arrested Wednesday around Manchester, and Abedi’s father told The Associated Press that Abedi’s brother Ismail was arrested Tuesday in the area. He said he believed his son was preparing to visit Saudi Arabia to spend the holy month of Ramadan with family.

Early Wednesday, Manchester police arrested a man at a house just a 10-minute walk from Abedi’s home. Haroun said Abedi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting group in the 1990s. He was reportedly in the process of receiving cash transferred from Salman at the time of his arrest.

Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was flagged to authorities five times over his extremist views, raising questions as to why he was never stopped by officers.

British-born Salman Abedi, 22, blew himself up on Monday night at the packed Manchester Arena at the end of Grande’s concert, attended by thousands of children and teenagers, killing 22 people and injuring 64.

The elder Abedi denied that his son had links to radical Islamist militants.

Ariana Grande suspended her Dangerous Woman world tour and cancelled several European shows Wednesday due to the deadly bombing at her concert in Manchester, England.

“Furious” British officials scolded their U.S. counterparts on Wednesday following repeated leaks of shared material about the investigation into the deadly Manchester terror attack. “That is what the investigation is focusing on”, a source with knowledge of the probe told Reuters, on condition of anonymity. Neighbors recalled him as a tall, thin young man who often wore traditional Islamic dress and did not talk much.

Ian Hopkins, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said: “I think it’s very clear that this is a network that we are investigating”.

In decrying the leaks, the National Police Chiefs’ Council joined other United Kingdom government officials who have expressed frustration with their American security allies since the attack, which killed 22 people and injured more than 50 others Monday. “There’s extensive investigations going on and activity taking place across Greater Manchester as we speak”.

Britain’s official terror threat level has also been raised to “critical”, the highest level, late on Tuesday. The decision comes against the backdrop of increased counter-terror activity in Britain. She said he had been known to security forces “up to a point”. “These relationships enable us to collaborate and share privileged and sensitive information that allows us to defeat terrorism and protect the public at home and overseas”, the spokesperson said.

The Libyan security force claimed that Hashim Abedi told authorities that both he and his brother belonged to IS.