M15 to check whether vital clues were missed before Manchester suicide blast
Manchester — Britain’s MI5 intelligence service launched an internal inquiry on Monday into whether vital clues were missed in the run-up to the Manchester suicide bombing, as police arrested another man in connection with the attack. The developments come a week after Salman Abedi, a British-born university dropout of Libyan origin, detonated his device outside a pop concert by teen idol Ariana Grande, killing 22 people including six children under the age of 18. A man was arrested in the southern coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea, more than 400km from Manchester on Monday over the attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. That brings the total number of people now detained on UK soil to 14, all of them men, while Abedi’s father and brother have been held in Libya where officials said the two brothers were IS jihadists. MI5 is looking at decisions taken in the case of Abedi, who used to be on a terrorist watch list but was no longer on it at the time of the attack, and whether ...
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