More than a dozen people now arrested after suicide attack in Manchester
Manchester — British police said they had arrested a new suspect on Monday over the Manchester bombing, bringing to 14 the number of people they had in custody over the attack. Authorities detained a 23-year-old in the southern coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea, more than 400km from Manchester. In addition, police raided a property in a southern Manchester suburb as they stepped up their investigation into last week’s bombing that killed 22 people. The attack, Britain’s worst in more than a decade, was carried out by British-born extremist Salman Abedi, who detonated a powerful bomb at the exit of a concert by US singer Ariane Grande. Scores were injured in the attack. Police have been hunting for a network of people connected to Abedi, with Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd saying on Sunday that there were "potentially" still members of the cell at large. "The operation is still really at full-tilt in a way and so until the operation is complete we can’t be entirely sure that it...
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