Yazata
Valued Senior Member
It was an Ariana Grande concert just finishing at Manchester Arena, the city's largest concert venue, filled with teenage girls. As they were all exiting, somebody detonated what appears to have been a fairly professional nail bomb in the foyer.
Police verify 19 dead and approximately 50 wounded (Sky news says 59), some injured very badly. Witnesses say there was blood everywhere. In terms of casualties, this appears to be the largest terrorist attack in Britain since the tube bombings in London.
American security commentators are noting that this displays a level of sophistication much higher than the recent lone-wolf knife and car attacks. Somebody constructed the bomb and they seem to have known what they were doing. Filled with nails, nuts and bolts and detonated in a crowded 'soft target', it was obviously meant to cause maximum carnage.
Presumably the British security people have the suicide bomber's body (reported reduced by the explosion to scattered parts) that they can hopefully identify, so they can trace back that individual's contacts and associations.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40008386
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-tell-horror-Manchester-terrorist-attack.html
Police verify 19 dead and approximately 50 wounded (Sky news says 59), some injured very badly. Witnesses say there was blood everywhere. In terms of casualties, this appears to be the largest terrorist attack in Britain since the tube bombings in London.
American security commentators are noting that this displays a level of sophistication much higher than the recent lone-wolf knife and car attacks. Somebody constructed the bomb and they seem to have known what they were doing. Filled with nails, nuts and bolts and detonated in a crowded 'soft target', it was obviously meant to cause maximum carnage.
Presumably the British security people have the suicide bomber's body (reported reduced by the explosion to scattered parts) that they can hopefully identify, so they can trace back that individual's contacts and associations.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40008386
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-tell-horror-Manchester-terrorist-attack.html
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