MANCHESTER, England: Britain raced Thursday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, as a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the probe. According to photographs from the scene of Monday’s attack at the 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena, Abedi’s device appeared to be fairly sophisticated. A relative told Agence France-Presse that Abedi had travelled to Manchester from Libya four days before the bombing. “It’s very clear that this is a network that we are investigating,” Manchester police chief Ian Hopkins told reporters. Britain’s terror threat assessment has been hiked to “critical”, the highest level, meaning an attack is considered imminent.

Source: Manila Times May 25, 2017 03:11 UTC