Police make more arrests in Manchester bomb but leaks feared

Details regarding the name of the alleged bomber, Salman Abedi, were published in US media before British police released that information to United Kingdom media.

A large crowd had gathered at the Manchester Arena for famous USA pop singer’s concert on Monday.

A British army soldier and a police officer secure an entrance to the defence ministry in London.

But Manchester United fans stood together in defiant mood as their team’s triumph in European football’s Europa League final brought some much-needed smiles to a city still in pain.

“We condemn these terrorist acts on civilians, innocent people”. Twenty-two people died after a bomb exploded in Manchester Arena just after Grande’s concert ended.

The New York Times published on Wednesday what appeared to be police photographs showing fragments from the bomb and a backpack used to hide it.

British government is furious over leaks of details about investigation into blast.

Investigators continue to work around the clock to track down associates of Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan descent, amid fears he is part of a network plotting further mayhem. His father, Ramadan Abedi, and brother, Hashim, have also been arrested in Libya. Authorities are working to determine whether Abedi possibly received training from the Islamic State when he traveled to Libya to visit his parents, who moved back to their home country. Hashem is believed to have planned to stage an attack in Libya. British officials, however, have not commented on whether Abedi had links to IS or other extremist groups.

After arresting a 23-year-old man on Tuesday, British police said they had taken three more men into custody on Wednesday in south Manchester, where Abedi lived.

A third suspect, a local woman, was also arrested Wednesday overnight during an armed raid but was later released without charges.

In developments overnight, police carried out a controlled explosion at a property in the Moss Side area of Manchester.

Akram Ramadan, another member of the city’s Libyan community, said Abedi was banned from Didsbury Mosque after he confronted an imam over an anti-Islamic State sermon.

An irate Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is said to have stopped sharing information with the US.

“In the beginning one of the girls went online and she saw the news that Salman was accused of the bombing in Manchester”, he said.

The country prepared to hold a national minute of silence Thursday at 11 a.m. London time for the 22 people killed in the suicide bomb attack.

The disclosure is regarded as “completely unacceptable” by Britain, because of the distress it may cause families of those killed or injured and because of the risk it could complicate investigations.

After the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, May is heading to the G7 gathering in Italy on Friday.

A German intelligence official said, “we must clarify whether Abedi knew people in Syria who he met” in Germany.