Police know identity of Manchester suicide bomber, says PM Theresa May


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  • Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a statement after an emergency meeting of the Cobra committee in response to a deadly suspected suicide bombing in the northern city of Manchester on May 23, 2017.PHOTO: AFP.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday police and security services knew the identity of a suspected suicide bomber who killed 22 people, many of them children, at a concert in Manchester.

May, speaking outside her 10 Downing Street official residence, said the authorities were not ready to announce the identity of the attacker.

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