Bomber had been rescued

THE suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester had been rescued from the civil war in Libya by the British Royal Navy three years prior, a UK government spokesman says.

Salman Abedi was 19 when he boarded the HMS Enterprise in Tripoli in August 2014 with more than 100 other British citizens. It is understood his name was on a list of stranded British citizens handed to the crew in charge of the evacuation.

The vessel took them to Malta, where they caught a flight back to the UK.