British authorities say an 8-year-old girl, Saffie Roussos, was among the 22 people who died in the Manchester concert bombing Monday night.
Despite wounds to her neck and a leg, Semino dashed into the auditorium in search of her daughter while her husband, who had only a minor injury, stayed behind to help an injured woman.
In a statement released by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s official Amaq news agency, they said it was revenge for attacks on “Muslim lands”.
President Trump, who is now on a trip to Israel, condemned the “evil losers” responsible for the attack, which he said preyed on “innocent children”. Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “Today the whole country will grieve for the people who have lost their lives”. “She was bleeding”, Hunter told The Times of London. It does not feel real. “It was just after she finished her final song”.
May chaired a meeting of the British government’s emergency Cobra committee prior to delivering her statement and is expected to visit Manchester later on Tuesday.
“I’ve called the hospitals”. The man was arrested in south Manchester; police provided few other details.
He said: “This has been the most horrific incident we have had to face in Greater Manchester and one that we all hoped we would never see”. Police believe Masood acted alone and was motivated by Islamist extremism. The attacker, I can confirm, died at the arena. The explosion was caused by one man “carrying an improvised explosive device, which he detonated”, Hopkins told reporters on Tuesday morning.
Manchester, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northwest of London, is one of Britain’s largest cities and Manchester Arena is one of the largest indoor concert venues in the world.
Gary Lineker, another former England worldwide and now a television presenter, summed up a mood of widespread revulsion when he tweeted: “To target children at a concert is beyond comprehension”.
“There was heat on my neck and when I looked up there were bodies everywhere”, Elena Semino, who was waiting for her 17-year-old daughter, told the Guardian newspaper.
Witnesses say after the concert was over, a loud bang was heard.
Grande herself responded on the social media site in the hours after the attack – writing that she was “broken” and didn’t “have words”.
Monday’s incident could mark the deadliest terrorist attack in England since the London subway bombings in 2005, which killed 52.
Emmanuel Macron, newly elected president of France which has been hard hit by Islamist attacks in recent years, will offer Prime Minister Theresa May cooperation in a call later in the day, Macron’s office said.
Grande, a 23-year-old American TV teen actress-turned-pop star, said that she was “broken” and at a loss for words over the deadly terror attack at her concert. Campaigning for Britain’s June 8 national election was suspended.
Ms Rawlings said the United Kingdom would not be intimidated by terrorism.
May said police had identified the suspected attacker, though she did not reveal his name.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop condemned the attack. From Manchester, NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports, “There’s still a lot of chaos here because some of the concertgoers haven’t been found”.