Manchester Bombing: 15 Suspects Detained, Others May Be At Large

British Interior Minister Amber Rudd, questioned by the BBC on May 28, 2017, believes that other people linked to the Manchester bombing could still be in the wild.

Fifteen suspects are now detained five days after the bombing that killed 22 people in Manchester, northern England. The British police believe they have arrested a large part of the network behind the terrorist attack. Thirteen people are in custody in the UK and two in Libya, the father and one of the kamikaze's brothers. On Sunday, 28 May, a 25-year-old man, and a 19-year-old man was again arrested in Manchester, and police operations continued.

Members of Salman Abedi 's network may still be at large, the British interior minister said. Asked by the BBC, Amber Rudd confirmed that the search for possible suspects "  was still running at full speed  ".

The day before, Theresa May explained that the progress of the investigation had prompted intelligence specialists to lower the level of alert from "critical" to "severe."

On Sunday, a 25-year-old man was arrested in the Old Trafford neighborhood in eastern Manchester, while another 19-year-old man was arrested in the Gorton neighborhood of northwestern England. the city.

In addition to interviews with those arrested over the past few days, the police have published images of the terrorist to try to find out more about his journey. These are photos taken from CCTV cameras on the night of the attack. The young man of 22 appears in jeans, dark cap and backpack. Investigators are trying to trace all his actions since his return from Libya on 18 May. They are for now sure that Salman Abedi rented an apartment in the center of Manchester before going to the Arena performance hall. It was in this apartment that he could have assembled his bomb.

The British government confirmed that Abedi was known to the security services before the bombing, without specifying on what grounds.