Manchester Arena Attacker Was Born In Manchester

The terrorist who killed 22 people by detonating a suicide bomb at Manchester Arena has been named Salman Abedi.

Abedi was born in Manchester in 1994 and is the second youngest of four children. He grew up in the Whalley Range area, close to a local girls' high school.

It is the same school of twins and former star pupils, Zahra and Salma Halane, both formerly aspiring medical students, who left their homes and moved to Syria in 2015.

Abedi was reportedly a student at Salford University.