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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2016 18:29:21 GMT
More than two dozen people were treated for breathing difficulties in a suspected chemical incident that sparked the evacuation of London City Airport Friday, fire and ambulance services said. After a three-hour investigation by police and firefighters in protective clothing, the terminal was declared safe. Police were not treating the incident as terrorist-related, and said they were investigating whether a canister of tear gas discarded by a passenger was the cause. Police and the fire brigade said they were called just after 4 p.m. (1500GMT) Friday to reports of passengers at the airport feeling unwell. With a fire alarm sounding, some 500 travelers and staff were evacuated to a parking lot and the tarmac near the airport runway.
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2017 18:26:57 GMT
The Islamic State claimed Tuesday that one of its “soldiers” carried out an apparent suicide bombing in Manchester that killed at least 22 people, including teenagers and others streaming out of a pop concert. Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins named the suspected attacker as 22-year-old Salman Abedi but declined to provide other details. A senior European intelligence official said the attacker was a British citizen of Libyan descent. The official said the suspect’s brother has been taken into custody. The Islamic State’s claim came as British investigators intensified their search for possible accomplices and police teams fanned out across the northern city after the worst terrorist strike in Britain in more than a decade. The Islamic State did not give any details about the attacker or how the blast was carried out late Monday. Its statement was posted on the online messaging service Telegram and later noted by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant websites.
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2017 18:24:11 GMT
Police are responding to a "serious incident" in Manchester amid reports of an "explosion" following a pop concert. Eyewitness Josh Elliott describes the scene at Manchester arena. These are the faces of innocent victims killed after an evil terrorist detonated a suicide bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert. Suicide bomber Salman Abedi appeared to deliberately target children, with one victim revealed to be a little girl aged just eight. As thousands of children, teenagers and adults desperately ran for their lives from the arena, others were helplessly caught up in the horror of the attack as the blast erupted in the foyer.
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2017 18:27:30 GMT
The BBC understands that the public previously warned authorities about Abedi's extremism. A community support worker, who did not wish to be named, said several years ago members of the public called an anti-terrorism hotline about Abedi after he publicly said "he was supporting terrorism" and "being a suicide bomber is ok". Friends remember him as a good footballer, a keen supporter of Manchester United and a user of cannabis. He had a sister and two brothers. His mother and father are now believed to be back living in Libya. For a while he left the UK too, but he is believed to have returned in the past few days.
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2017 18:24:29 GMT
Britain’s prime minister put the nation on its highest level of alert on Tuesday and deployed the military to work with the police over fears that another terrorist attack was imminent. The announcement came as the police continued to investigate whether the Monday night bombing at a pop music concert in Manchester that killed 22 people, including children, was part of a broader conspiracy. Earlier in the day, the police raided the home of Salman Abedi, the man they identified as the bomber; he died in the blast. Chief Constable Ian Hopkins of the Greater Manchester Police said that the investigation was focusing on determining “whether Mr. Abedi was acting alone or as part of a network.” A senior United States official said on Tuesday night that Mr. Abedi had traveled multiple times to Libya, where his parents immigrated from, but did not know the timing of his last trip. The official was not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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