Salman Abedi has been named the suspect after a day of raids and arrests by Manchester police.
- Salman Abedi's ID was found at Manchester Arena.
- First picture of him released on Friday morning.
- He was born in the UK and turned to radical Islam in recent years.
- The Sun said Abedi had "secret jihadi training during family trips to Syria."
- His Manchester address was searched on Tuesday, with forensic experts finding a book titled "Know your Chemicals."
LONDON — The man who detonated a fatal bomb in the Manchester Arena on Monday night has been identified as 22-year-old Salman Abedi, British police said Tuesday.
"I can confirm that the man suspected of carrying out last night’s atrocity has been named as 22-year-old Salman Abedi," Greater Manchester Police chief constable Ian Hopkins said in a statement yesterday afternoon.
According to police, Abedi, who they believe acted alone, killed 22 and injured at least 64 when he detonated an improvised bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena, in central Manchester, where the pop star Ariana Grande was performing.
Abedi died in the attack. His ID was found at the site of the attack, The New York Times reported, citing a US law enforcement official who spoke anonymously because the investigation is still ongoing.
Who was Salman Abedi?
Abedi, also known as Salman Ramadan Abedi, is believed to have travelled to Manchester from London by train before the attack, Reuters reported. The Islamic State said Tuesday that a "caliphate soldier" was responsible for the attack.
This picture of Abedi was published on Wednesday morning.
Abedi was born in Manchester in 1994 and was one of four children to parents who were Libyan refugees who fled to Britain at the height of the Gaddafi regime, the BBC reports.
He attended school in Manchester and went to Salford University before dropping out prior the second year of his business and management degree getting underway. He had left the UK for a period of time but returned just days before the attack. The Financial Times said he was involved with gangs and turned to radical Islam in recent years.
The Sun published the first image of Abedi on Wednesday. It said he had "secret jihadi training during family trips to Syria," making regular trips to the war-torn country without alerting authorities.
Abedi grew up in the Whalley Range area of the city, about two miles south-west of the city centre. He did not make a "strong impression" to those around him, the AP reported, and was hardly known to staff at Salford University.
Alan Kinsey, 52, who lives across the street from the Abedi residence, told the AP he had seen "a lot of different people living there" in the past but in the last six months or more had only seen one young man in his 20s. Kinsey said he would often get picked up by another young man in a Toyota and got home late.
Kinsey added that he thought Abedi "worked in a takeaway or something" because of his late hours.
House search
Law enforcement officials gained entry to Abedi's home Tuesday afternoon after setting off a controlled explosion to get in, the Times reported.
"It was so quick. These cars just pulled up and all these police with guns, dogs, jumped out of the car and said to us: 'Get in the house now,'" Simon Turner, Abedi's 46-year-old neighbour, told the Associated Press.
An unidentified 23-year-old man was arrested in south Manchester in connection with the attack, and armed police officers also raided two addresses near the Chorlton area of Manchester around lunchtime, The Guardian reported.
The pictures below show forensic investigators investigating a home in the Fallowfield area of Manchester believed to be linked to the attacker.
Those concerned about loved ones who may have been in the area during the attack can call 0800 096 0095.
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