No one is saying it was a second bomb.
Controlled explosions were ten a penny in the 1980s.
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22 dead, 59 injured in Manchester Arena explosion (Being treated as an attack)
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No one is saying it was a second bomb.
Controlled explosions were ten a penny in the 1980s.
UtterlyPerplexed
Member
A bus as well.
Fucking hell. I am just shaking here tonight. Luckily I've been able to make it back by foot, but I can do nothing but just shiver especially after seeing the police update. To target a concert fully booked full of young people is fucking sickening.
Oh Jesus. Thank goodness.
Got a source on that?
Kadin
Member
Hug him and tell your folks and your bro how much you love them.
plagiarize
Banned
Ah, understood. Sorry for the attitude then. I'm reeling seeing my favorite city suffer something like this.
DudeWithNoName
Member
This is a good thing. Hopefully allowing for authorities to view closed circuit footage for the person who left the device there.
Young victims, smh.
Nakasan
Member
Do it. I've just been to hug my kid even though it's 30 odd miles away.
Just fucking awful.
GoldenDarkness
Banned
TMZ of all places has been saying its a nail bomb for awhile now too
Ok agreed completely... Does all the pre emptive damage control saying it's likely not terrorism not count as speculation?
Monty Mole
Member
This is heartbreaking. I feel for the families and friends, the injured, and all the poor distraught witnesses, many of which will be very young and in shock. Awful.
I love Manchester and I'm proud of our truly multicultural city. No attempt to destroy it will ever work.
KZObsessed
Member
I've lived in Manchester most of my life. I work in Manchester. My little brother goes to Uni there. This is scary. God bless the emergency services though, amazing people.
Whoever did this deserves to die slowly and burn in hell for eternity.
Are they not on the scene? Every news organization has a remote post in Europe.
Insane Metal
Member
God damn. Some of you people on this site need to get a fucking grip. 19 people are known dead, probably including children with 200 more reported injured and your mind goes to Trump. No one cares what he thinks right now. Fuck off.
Sorry but stop this shit.
ComputerBlue
Member
Ariana Grande, so there were probably a lot of kids there. What the fuck man, so sad.
Not unexpected given the performer, but still this is awful.
@gmpolice is the Greater Manchester Police account, have been putting out updates
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
No worries. Tensions are running high. We all want the best for the injured, families of the victims and Manchester x.
FriskyrumX
Banned
So glad for that. Glad he's safe.
No they don't. London, probably yeah. Don't count on CBS having a staff reporter in Manchester. Freelancers/stringers probably.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Who the fuck is actually waiting to see what - of all people - Donald Trump thinks? What does he have to do with the UK?
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
Then say that. Don't say the worst thing about mass murder is inaccurate news for your consumption.
Masterspeed
Member
Sorry, Live Radio Five. I was listening in some more for a bit.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
My dad was a detective, and I've studied true crime for over 10 years, but one thing I'll never get used to is the fact that there are people out there who are made happy and get pleasure out of seeing innocent people they've never met suffer and in agony.
It's the reality of this world, and it'll never change. It's impossible for any sane person to ever relate to that line of thinking. Empathy is important and some people either don't have it or did have it and it was overridden by anger.
It's the reality of this world, and it'll never change. It's impossible for any sane person to ever relate to that line of thinking. Empathy is important and some people either don't have it or did have it and it was overridden by anger.
This is sickening.
You need to get your priorities straightened out.
Thing is, we are not speculating it isn't. Just saying it isn't confirmed yet.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNWT/status/866809600393322496
Oldham Hospital on lockdown in response to event
Fortunately reports of gunmen seem to be bullshit
Oldham Hospital on lockdown in response to event
Fortunately reports of gunmen seem to be bullshit
Complistic
Member
Do they do bag searches like they do in the US in the UK? I'm just curious.
metalslimer
Member
Rip to the victims. Fuck this world sometimes
Audioboxer
Member
50 confirmed injured. That came directly from Manchester police. It was an American station saying 200 which has not came from our police forces.
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
Of course it was terrorism.
It has always just been a spot check.
I'm not saying you, but it absolutely does happen.
Vivalaraza
Member
Controlled explosion was an item of clothing
Just precautionary
Just precautionary
FriskyrumX
Banned
Seems like every time there's an event like this that happens, twitter always says there's a gunman at a locked down hospital.... Really wish people would stop doing that, it's so bad. Just makes it worse to think about.
Masterspeed
Member
We do normally and most of the time, but from what I've heard on live radio from reports of people unharmed have said they didn't really bother to look into bags because most of the attendees were young.
I'm petty sure the security there are going to be in huge fucking trouble.
Generally, more speculation is done by news organisations when they're reporting on incidents occuring in other countries compared to those occuring in their own.
In particular, in the UK, the BBC and Sky (and ITN) typically wont speculate until they have confirmed sources in established positions stating such things.
Source: Reuters
https://twitter.com/Reuters?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
I don't know if Reuters has independenly confirmed this or if they're going by CBS news, so don't assume it's true for now.
Also, regarding the second explosion:
https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status...Update_1c9da05e-3f51-11e7-b6c0-0e6315a0550e/0
So yeah, cautionary thing.