WORLD Police nab another man in bomb probe

COUNTER- TERROR police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing have arrested another man, bringing the total number of arrests to 10.

A man and a woman have been released without charge and detectives investigating the atrocity are now questioning eight men following a series of raids across the country, Greater Manchester police said in a tweet yesterday.

A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people in a packed concert hall in Manchester on Monday night, in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called a sickening act targeting children and young people.

The developments followed a fraught day in which Greater Manchester Police severed intelligence- sharing ties with the US due to evidence being repeatedly passed to journalists without permission.

“While we do not usually comment on informationsharing arrangements with international law enforcement organisations, we want to em- phasise that, having received fresh assurances, we are now working closely with our key partners around the world including all those in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance,” Mark Rowley, the UK’s most senior counter- terrorism officer, said.

The bomber, Salman Abedi, who was known to security services for his radical views, was said to have been in close contact with family members moments before slaughtering concert- goers.

A relative of the 22- year- old said he had felt increasing frustration at his treatment in the UK, heightened after a friend was fatally knifed in what he perceived to be a religious hate crime.

She said the British- born bomber began referring to others in the country as “infidels” who were “unjust to Arabs”.

Libyan authorities, who are questioning Abedi’s parents and siblings, claimed he made a final phone call to his mother on the eve of the attack, in which he said: “Forgive me.” Music fans were targeted at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena, where Abedi killed 22 people, including seven children, and injured dozens in the worst terrorist attack on British soil since the July 7 bombing in London in 2005.

British investigative efforts remained focused on smashing the potential terror ring which could have helped Abedi.

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