LIVE: Fatalities after Manchester 'explosion'

Sky News ^ | 22 May 2017

[mandaladon]

Police warn people to stay away from the Manchester Arena area following reports of an explosion.

Here's what we know:

:: Police have confirmed a number of fatalities after reports of an explosion at Manchester Arena

:: The arena was hosting an Ariana Grande concert and the "loud bangs" were heard just after the concert ended

:: The cause of the bangs has not yet been confirmed

Greater Manchester Police have confirmed a number of confirmed fatalities

[luv2ndamend]

Coming to a country near you.Its going to be the norm in big cities. The pols say to get use to it!!

[varina davis]

20+ DEAD AT GRANDE GIG
‘NAIL BOMB’ BLAST -— drudgereport.com

[Mathews]

Isn’t this the doughnut licker?

[mware]

Sweet Jesus.

20 dead

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly!

I will say that inside the arena with a lot of other noise, they may have only heard a loud pop.

Seems like they would have heard the rumble doesn’t it.

[Godebert]

Erin Burnit interviewing some girl who was there. Girl said she saw 20-30 dead bodies in one of the tunnel exits.

[MarMema]

I figured it was video they just got their hands on to show...

[tcrlaf]

This has to be serious.
CNN broke into the non-stop Fake Trump News coverage for a whole ONE MINUTE to mention it!

[Bratch]

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

#Manchester #UK #TerrorAttack
Voice of Europe https://twitter.com/StockMonsterUSA/status/866797317302517760

[MarMema]

I expect the numbers to rise. They usually do.

[commish]

Now reports are coming out it was a nail bomb or bombs. Cue the Annnnd It’s Muslims pic.

[RckyRaCoCo]

[matt1234]

t doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to set off a bomb at the end of a concert.

At the end, the doors are opened, any anyone can walk into the arena, including someone with a suicide vest.

[DoughtyOne]

One guy reported that he was leaving early to avoid the crowd.

He was met by an officer who told his people to exit another way. As the guy turned to do that, the officer said, “RUN!”, and the bomb went off.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Those are the type of bombs that Hamas used to put on buses in Israel

[Stentor]

Like we didn't know who it would be pic.twitter.com/bxZlbvIoNY— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 22, 2017

[Hieronymus]

Scottish balloon. They were afraid that a haggis was being piped in n

[CivilWarBrewing]

I can solve this Islamic terrorism problem:

EVERYONE CONVERT TO ISLAM !!!!!! /s

[DoughtyOne]

Another woman is giving the same account, only she says there was a delay of about ten seconds after she was redirected.

She may have approached the officer prior to the other man, thus making the difference in delay after the warning was given.

Both said the bomb went off right after the officer said, “RUN!”