update: Skye News Reporting 19 dead, at least 50 injured. Also we are not yet seeing the horrific injuries witnesses are reporting.
further update: Fox via BBC reporting another bomb has been found police will destroy with controlled explosion. Possibly intended for first responders but didn't go off. (it is now reported this turns out to have been a bag/parcel of clothing lost/left behind that got caught up in the see something say something chaos)
From Reuters:
A witness who attended the venue in the northern English city of Manchester where U.S. singer Ariana Grande had been performing said she felt a massive explosion as she was leaving the concert.
"We were making our way out and when we were right by the door there was a massive explosion and everybody was screaming," Catherine Macfarlane told Reuters.
"It was a huge explosion - you could feel it in your chest. It was chaotic. Everybody was running and screaming and just trying to get out of the area."
From the Sun:
"MULTIPLE DEATHS"
POLICE have confirmed that people have died and been injured after “explosions” at Manchester Arena sent thousands of terrified concertgoers fleeing an Ariana Grande concert.
Witnesses on social media have reported hearing a “massive bang” before screaming crowds rushed out of venue with police confirming an explosion in the foyer area. ...
Shocking pictures and video footage have shown the bloodied injured leaving the arena as passers-by rush to try and help. Manchester's Victoria station, which backs onto the arena, has been evacuated and all trains cancelled as emergency services respond.
Concertgoer Majid Khan, 22, said: "I and my sister, along with a lot of others were seeing Ariana Grande perform at Manchester Arena, and we were all exiting the venue when around 10.40-10.45pm-ish a huge bomb-like bang went off that hugely panicked everyone and we were all trying to flee the arena.
"It was one bang and essentially everyone from the other side of the arena where the bang was heard from suddenly came running towards us as they were trying to exit Trinity Way and that was blocked so everyone was just running to any exit they could find as quickly as they could.
"Everyone was in a huge state of panic, calling each other as some had gone to the toilet whilst this had gone off, so it was just extremely disturbing for everyone there."From the Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Several people killed and many injured after two explosions in Manchester Arena at the end of Ariana Grande gig as bloodied teenage concert-goers flee to their waiting parents
According to the Sun:
ReplyDelete...Chris Parker, 33, was walking through the station towards the box office when one explosion went off.
He said he saw at least six people seriously injured on the floor and told the Sun: “I was walking through and one huge bang went off.
“There was nuts and bolts flying everywhere, and also human flesh. It was just one bang and a white flash. I treated a woman called Pauline. I’ve got blood on my hands. It was like a war zone inside where the box office is.
“There looked to be at least six people potentially fatally wounded. I saw one woman’s leg off. It is mayhem.”...
The BBC is saying that the death toll has already reached double digits.
ReplyDeleteFrom the BBC:
ReplyDeleteThe cause of the reported explosion is unknown but the North West Counter Terrorism Unit is treating it as a possible terrorist incident.
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford said senior counter-terrorism officers are assembling in London and are liaising with the Home Office.
Fox News is saying that 19 have been confirmed killed.
ReplyDeleteAlso mentioned a suicide bomber.
Today is the Fourth Anniversary of the death of Lee Rigby
ReplyDeleteFrom social media Taxis in Manchester are offering FREE rides home for anyone stuck... now a warning going out for young people to NOT take these offers of free rides alone.
Reports on ground in #Manchester police are moving people/media back for fear of a second suspect device - controlled explosion expected
Sun
ReplyDeleteMay 28, 2017
Ramadan (start)
a couple days ago, BusinessInsider....Merkel: Britain will 'pay a price' for pushing ahead with its post-Brexit immigration plans
ReplyDeletePM Theresa May offered a lame "our thoughts go out...." She couldn't even manage to say "our thoughts and prayers". Cold bitch. If ever a need for prayers, it should be when little girls are slaughtered.
ReplyDeleteAbout Theresa May (from Wiki):
ReplyDeleteMay is a member of the Church of England and regularly worships at church on Sunday.[203][204][205] The daughter of an Anglican priest, the Reverend Hubert Brasier, May has said that her Christian faith "is part of me. It is part of who I am and therefore how I approach things".[206]
She's a coward -- and she doesn't want to offend the sons of allah.