UK explosion suicide bomber died at scene: Police
The suicide bomber who carried out the explosion on Monday night at Ariana Grande's concert in UK's Manchester Arena died at the scene in the explosion, police have said. The bomber who is believed to have been acting alone detonated an improvised explosive device, police added. The death toll from the attack has risen to 22 with 59 injured.


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The archbishop of Canterbury has tweeted his condolences to those affected:Heroic Manchester, dark evil cannot overcome it. We pray for those in sorrow on the hard journey of loss & pain, & for those who protect usThe Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, has joined other parties in halting election campaigning:The thoughts and sympathies of all of us in Plaid Cymru go out to all the people affected by last night?s horrific events in Manchester. We will be suspending our campaigning today as a mark of respect to all of the families.Updated
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Peter WalkerCharlotte Campbell?s 15-year-old daughter, Olivia, is still missing after the concert. She spoke to BBC Radio 4?s Today programme, where she began by saying when she last talked to her daughter:She was at the concert. She?d just seen the support act and said she was having an amazing time, and thanking me for letting her go. She was with her friend, Adam. Adam was found about half an hour ago ? he?s in hospital ? but Olivia?s not been found yet.I?m at home phoning everybody: hospitals, police, the centres that the children have been put in. Her dad?s in Manchester looking for her. I?ve got friends looking for her. I?ve got people I don?t even know looking for her, people messaging me, saying we?ve got her photo, looking for her, we?ll get in contact if we see her. And I?m just hearing nothing. Her phone?s dead.Social media has been wonderful. I don?t know what I?ve have done without them, it?s made it so aware that she?s missing. There?s thousands of people who now know she?s missing, there?s people out looking for her I don?t know, and I can?t thank these people enough, giving their time up.They?ve basically told me to stay put and wait for a phone call. I daren?t leave the house just in case she somehow gets home.We have still not found OLIVIA CAMPBELL. If you see her please contact me ASAP. pic.twitter.com/8LboKg0B2nUpdated
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Andy Burnham, the new mayor of Greater Manchester, has been speaking in the city about the attack, which he describes as ?an evil act?. He says his thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends:We will do whatever we can to support them. We are grieving today but we are strong.He also pays tribute to the emergency services:I want to thank the hundreds of police, fire and ambulance staff who worked through the night ? I want to thank the people of Manchester: even in the minutes after the attack they opened their doors to strangers and drove them away from danger ? It will be that spirit of Manchester that will prevail and hold us together.Burnham says he was a minister in the Home Office during the 7/7 attacks on London, which killed 52 people:I remember how London felt on that day, I remember it vividly ? Manchester will pull together ? that?s what we are, that?s what we do. They won?t win. This city has dealt with difficult things in the past and we will do so now.Updated
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The explosion happened moments after the end of a concert at Manchester Arena by Ariana Grande.Grande, who was not hurt in the blast, tweeted earlier that she was ?broken? by news of the casualties:broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words.

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The US president Donald Trump, on a visit to Israel, is being updated on the situation in Manchester, White House spokesman Sean Spicer has confirmed:National Security Team is providing updates to @POTUS on situation in #manchesterexplosionUpdated
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Key updates from the most recent police press conference:Updated
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Chief constable Ian Hopkins confirms that 22 people have died and a further 59 have been injured.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.Families and many young people were out to enjoy a concert at the Manchester Arena and have lost their lives. Our thoughts are with those 22 victims that we now know have died, the 59 people who have been injured and their loved ones. We continue to do all we can to support them. They are being treated at eight hospitals across Greater Manchester.This is a fast-moving investigation and we have significant resources deployed to both the investigation and the visible patrols that people will see across Greater Manchester as they wake up to news of the events last night. This will include armed officers as people would expect. More than 400 officers have been involved in the operation during the night.To remind you, we were called at 10.33pm to reports of an explosion at the Manchester Arena at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande concert. More than 250 calls came in and emergency services were very quickly on scene. Emergency numbers have been established for anyone who is concerned for loved ones who may not have returned home: 0161 856 9400 or 0161 856 9900.We have been treating this as a terrorist incident and we believe that while the attack last night was conducted by one man. The priority is to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network.The attacker, I can confirm, died at the arena. We believe the attacker was carrying an improvised explosive device, which he detonated, causing this atrocity.We would ask people not to speculate on his details or to share names. There is a complex and wide-ranging investigation under way.Our priority is to work with the national counter-terrorist policing network and UK intelligence services to establish more details about the individual who carried out this attack.Updated
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Hopkins confirms that children are among the 22 people confirmed to have died.

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Chief constable Ian Hopkins says the attacker died in the explosion.He says that while police believe the man was acting alone in the attack last night, investigations are ongoing to establish if he was part of a network.He says police believe the man was ?carrying an improvised explosive device, which he detonated causing this atrocity?.

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Greater Manchester police says 22 people have died, and 59 injured.