Britain raises terror threat level to critical after concert bombing

May said Abedi was born and raised in Britain and a European security official said he was of Libyan descent.

Police patrol the secure area outside the Manchester Arena.

Tributes to the people who lost their lives during the Manchester terror attack.

He was registered as recently as 2016 as living at Elsmore Road, where police raided a downstairs semi-detached property on Tuesday. “This affects us all, and especially the many residents in Saskatoon who have friends and family living in England”.

“They have not been there for quite a while”.

“The thought that anyone could go out to a concert and not come home is heartbreaking”.

He said: “He walked past me one evening. He is such an unlikely person to have done this”.

There, he reportedly caught the attention of one imam whom he stared down during a sermon denouncing terrorism. Islamic State has repeatedly urged attacks as retaliation for Western involvement in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

“The priority remains to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network”, he said. The attack was carried out by a lone suspect carrying a bomb, Hopkins said.

Elizabeth also thanked first responders for their professionalism, and added, “I would like to express my admiration for the way the people of Manchester have responded, with humanity and compassion, to this act of barbarity”.

Abedi visited the mosque to pray, but the imam insisted “he was not my friend, he is not close“.

Abedi was reported to be a former business student who dropped out of university and turned to radical Islam. A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday, according to the Greater Manchester Police Department; more details on the man’s identity weren’t immediately available.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has upgraded its travel advice for the United Kingdom, now telling visitors to “exercise a high degree of caution” because of the heightened threat.

Mohammed Saeed El-Saeiti, the imam at the Didsbury mosque in Manchester, branded Abedi a unsafe extremist.

Haffar stressed the mosque was what he called a moderate, modern, liberal mosque. “He confirmed his father and sister and the rest of the family had moved to Libya and had moved there straight after the revolution after Gadaffi was killed”, Yousef said.

“Obviously, if over time the symptoms increase to the point that it interferes with their functioning – so let’s say their daily routine, their school functioning, their social functioning – then it’s very important to seek help”.

Monday’s bombing made Manchester Arena, one of the largest indoor concert venues in Europe, the latest apparent target of Islamic extremists striking at the heart of Western culture, an ideology baffling to the panicked young faces emerging from the concert.