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22 dead, 59 injured in Manchester Arena explosion (Being treated as an attack)

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PantherLotus

Professional Schmuck
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https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866786909544230912

^that's the verified account confirming.
 
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dc89

Member
Been to many shows there. Adele last year and The Weeknd just a few weeks ago.
You don't think something like this would happen in a venue you have had many happy memories at.
Saddening.
 
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iMax

Member
PizzaFace said:
Pinch of salt here, but seems like there is a dashcam video that catches whatever it was. Look to the left at 7 seconds. You can hear it too.

And yes, the dashcam timestamp says 9:30, but that could just be the camera hasn't adjusted for daylight savings, it was reported around 10:30.

edit: forgot the link https://twitter.com/JoeAaronGregory/status/866784565821677569
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That's not a blown speaker. That's an explosion. Could be electrical. No reason to believe deliberate at this time.
 
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SomedayTheFire

Member
There's a video claiming to be people leaving the arena, taken from inside. Doesn't look like the explosion happened inside the arena. Outside? it happened just after the concert finished.
 
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Wyndstryker

Member
RIP to the victims.

Hopefully it's just a bad pyrotechnic accident or something and not something involving someone with malicious intent.
 
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TimmmV

Member
I'm about 15 mins walk from there, heard the bang and didn't think anything of it :/

Can hear helicopters flying around now too, this is really weird

Was going to say that hope everyone is ok, but apparently its been confirmed thats not the case already :(
 
M

Meadows

Banned
It's weird nothing about this seems like a bomb in terms of the lack of damage and nobody saw the blast.

I wonder if the deaths were from a crush
 
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Arials

Member
There's a scouse man on BBC news saying that he ran into the arena try and find his daughter and he saw a lot of fatalities, "20-30 people" seriously injured he's saying.
 
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TheLionsDen

Member
This is sad, especially considering the demographics that would likely attend an Ariana Grande concert.

Hope everyone there the best.
 
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Symphonia

Banned
pulsemyne said:
Oh god the description on the BBC is...urgh...also holy shit that picture on twitter could be true...fuck.
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If you're talking about the burned bodies, it's fake.

If you're talking about the blood on the floor by the doors, it's old.

Don't believe everything you see on Twitter.
 
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number11

Member
If this was terrorism (obviously all terrorism is horrible).. but how messed up can you be to target a bunch of teenage girls.
 
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