New arrest in Manchester attack investigation as police search for accomplices

Police have arrested a man in Manchester’s Moss Side in the early hours of Friday in connection with the attack on Manchester Arena

Salman Abedi killed at least 22 people in a packed concert hall in Manchester by setting off a bomb
Salman Abedi killed at least 22 people in a packed concert hall in Manchester by setting off a bomb

British police arrested a man on Friday in the of suburb of Moss Side, the tenth person to be taken into custody in connection with Monday night's Manchester attack.

Police arrested the man in the early hours, and are currently searching another address in the same area.

“We are currently carrying out a search at an address at a property in Moss Side in connection with the attack on the Manchester Arena on Monday. The search is being carried out at a separate property to the address where a man was arrested earlier this morning,” Greater Manchester police said in a statement.

Searches were also being carried out on Friday morning at St Helens, Merseyside.

Eight men are in now custody after a man and a woman were released without charge, Greater Manchester police said in a tweet.

One of the men under arrest is believed to be Ismail Abedi, 23, the brother of the bomber, Salman Abedi.

Police raids in the south of the city on Thursday uncovered suspicious materials similar to those used in the bombing that killed 22 people. Bomb disposal experts were brought in to search a house in Wigan on Thursday evening.

Officers have warned that accomplices may still be at large and bomb-making equipment could be as yet undiscovered.

British police have also resumed sharing information with their counterparts in the US after a brief suspension over a series of leaks by American officials to journalists providing details of the Manchester bomb investigation.

The suspension, announced early on Thursday morning, lasted less than 24 hours. It was primarily intended to send a message to US law enforcement agencies registering anger at the casual way in which sensitive.

Mark Rowley, the UK’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, confirmed that they had “received fresh assurances” from the US and were now working closely with them again.

Abedi killed at least 22 people in a packed concert hall in Manchester by setting off a bomb, in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called a sickening act targeting children and young people.

Abedi also perished in the attack.