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Manchester bomber network still at large

London - The terrorism threat level was lowered due to significant progress in the investigation

By Reuters

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Published: Sun 28 May 2017, 9:41 PM

Last updated: Mon 29 May 2017, 2:41 AM

Members of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi's network are still potentially at large, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday, after the terrorism threat level was lowered due to significant progress in the investigation.
Police said they have arrested a large part of the network behind the bombing, including a 14th person held on Sunday as police continued to close in on the group. Asked during an interview on BBC television whether some of the group were still at large, Rudd said: "Potentially. It is an ongoing operation. The operation is still really at full tilt in a way." Prime Minister Theresa May said developments in the investigation into the bombing meant intelligence experts had decided to lower the threat level from its highest rating "critical", meaning an attack could be imminent, to "severe".
Police have issued a photograph of Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton born to Libyan parents, taken on Mon-day night before he blew himself up, killing 22 people at a concert hall, and said they believed he had assembled his bomb in an apartment in the city centre.


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