Identity of Manchester Suicide Bomber Revealed

British police have released the identity of the Manchester suicide bomber: a 22-year-old named Salman Abedi who was born in Manchester. His family had fled to Britain to escape the Gaddafi regime.

British authorities have announced the identity of the suicide bomber responsible for the Manchester explosion.

U.S. media outlets, citing British sources, have revealed the identity of the Manchester terrorist attack perpetrator.

His name is Salman Abedi, born in 1994 to a Muslim Arab family in Manchester. He was the fourth and youngest child in the family.

Salman Abedi’s parents fled Libya to Britain before his birth to escape the Muammar Gaddafi regime.

News agencies quoted British officials as saying that the current priority of the intelligence agency’s investigation is to determine what contacts the suicide bomber had and to what extent he was connected to terrorist networks.

The terrorist group “Islamic State” (ISIS) accepted responsibility for the Manchester terrorist operation in a statement, claiming the attack perpetrator was one of the “soldiers of the caliphate.”

In a severe explosion that occurred Monday evening at a concert hall in Manchester, 22 people were killed and more than 50 were injured. Most of the victims were young people.

The explosion occurred shortly after 10:30 p.m., immediately after the concert ended.

Consecutive Attacks Since 2005

Police investigations to uncover possible accomplices of the bombing perpetrator led to two additional arrests today (Tuesday). Furthermore, police detonated a suspicious substance in a location in the Greater Manchester area.

The mass attack in Manchester occurs two months after a terrorist attack in Westminster, London, in which 5 people were killed. The Manchester attack is also temporally noteworthy. Four years ago on this very day, a British soldier was killed in a knife attack. A far more devastating terrorist attack occurred in 2005 when the London Underground was targeted, resulting in 52 deaths and hundreds wounded and injured. Radical Islamists have claimed responsibility for most of these attacks.

Source: DW