Manchester bomber ‘f lown to Libya for secret burial’

THE remains of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi have been secretly flown to Libya for burial after mosques in England snubbed his family, it was claimed last night.

Abedi, 23, the Manchester-born son of Libyan refugees, was buried without a full Islamic ceremony, said Noman Benotman, of anti-extremist think-tank Quilliam.

Abedi, pictured right on the night of the atrocity, detonated a bomb filled with shrapnel consisting of nuts and bolts at a concert by American pop star Ariana Grande in May, killing 22 and injuring 512.

Much of the audience at the concert were children.

Mr Benotman tweeted: ‘After Manchester mosques refused to bury the remains of terrorist Salman Abedi, British authorities allowed his family to move him to Libya, where he was buried in Tripoli.’

Greater Manchester Police last week issued an arrest warrant for Abedi’s younger brother Hashem, 20, who has been held in the Libyan capital of Tripoli as a suspect by militia there.

This weekend, the militia also arrested a Libyan cleric called Abdel Razzaq Mushaireb, who is accused of leading a militant youth group said to have trained Abedi before ‘sending’ him to Islamic State in Libya.