Manchester suicide bomber was a local boy and university dropout

Floral tributes in Albert Square in Manchester. - AFP

MANCHESTER: Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an attack on a pop concert here was a business student who dropped out of university.

Born to a devoutly Islamic Libyan family in Britain's third biggest city, newspapers said he was known to the security services and had turned to radical Islam in recent years.