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UK police issue photo of Manchester attacker, believe bomb made in city apartment

British police on Saturday released a photograph of Salman Abedi on the night he killed 22 people in a suicide bomb attack in Manchester and said they believed an apartment in the city center was where he put together his device.

“We know one of the last places Abedi went was the city center flat and from there he left to make his way to the Manchester Arena,” Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins and Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator UK Counter Terrorism Policing said in a joint statement.

“The flat is highly relevant as a location which we believe may be the final assembly place for the device.”

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British police on Saturday released a photograph of Salman Abedi on the night he killed 22 people in a suicide bomb attack in Manchester and said they believed an apartment in the city center was where he put together his device.

“We know one of the last places Abedi went was the city center flat and from there he left to make his way to the Manchester Arena,” Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins and Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator UK Counter Terrorism Policing said in a joint statement.

“The flat is highly relevant as a location which we believe may be the final assembly place for the device.”

 

 

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