Maurizio Gambarini/DPAFormer United States President Barack Obama said at a Berlin reunion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday that he was "heartbroken" by a suicide bombing that killed 22 people in Manchester. "We had a chance backstage to send a message to the people of Manchester about how heartbroken we are by the loss of life," Obama said. Some 70,000 people had gathered at the central Berlin landmark to see Obama reunited with Merkel for the Evangelical Church's biennial gathering, German public television reported. "Chancellor Merkel has done outstanding work, not just here in Germany but around the world," he said. Obama is set to travel to Baden-Baden, southwest Germany, later Thursday to accept the German Media Prize.

Source: The Local May 25, 2017 11:26 UTC