United Kingdom police say 23-year-old man arrested over Manchester attack

“The cowardice of the attacker met the bravery of the emergency services and the people of Manchester“, she said.

A suicide bomber with an “improvised” explosion device targeted a concert arena in Manchester as thousands of young people streamed from the venue.

Officials are now working to establish if the attacker was part of a network or acted alone.

Police stand guard at dawn, after a blast at the Manchester Arena Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

The blast also came two and half weeks ahead of an election in which Prime Minister Theresa May is predicted by opinion polls to win a large majority.

May is due to chair a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency committee later Tuesday. “Terrible incident in Manchester“.

“Manchester is today waking up to the most hard of dawns”, Burnham told reporters.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed 28-year-old John Atkinson’s death on Tuesday (local time), hours after friends began posting tributes online, remembering an “amazing young man” and “a handsome soul”.

“We were making our way out and when we were right by the door there was a massive explosion and everybody was screaming”, concert-goer Catherine Macfarlane told Reuters.

Police have named the suspected bomber as 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi.

“Not think about those f**king cowards – they think they can break us, but it won’t”.

There are at least 22 fatalities and many injuries following the explosion at Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester last night.

Grande, who was not injured in the blast, tweeted: “broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don’t have words”.

Grande was not injured, AP reports, citing a representative of the singer’s record label. “United we stand”. The White House, meanwhile said that President Donald trump, who is now in the midst of his first overseas tour was being provided updates on the terror attack.

The teenager was one of the first people to be transported to hospital, but she later died with her mother at her bedside.

Mark Owen wrote: “So sad to hear the news from Manchester“.

Ivo Delgado, a witness, told CNN he heard one explosion as the concert was ending.

Puri added: “We should be really careful not to give too much credence to an organization that effectively operates by inspiring people it may have never had any contact with”.

Other friends and relatives took to Twitter, using the hashtag #MissinginManchester, to share images of people still unaccounted for, asking for help in finding them.

Facebook activated its Safety Check feature for people to mark themselves as safe or check on friends or loved ones.

She was previously scheduled to play the next stop of the tour in London on Thursday, but has also canceled that show.