UPDATE on Manchester Ariana Grande Concert Bombing
UPDATE: New reports claiming IRA may be suspect.
Many witnesses are claiming there were actually 3 bombs.
One 16-year-old boy says he and his two friends had come from Lincoln for this evening’s show. They were sat next to the stage when they heard explosions as the performance came to an end. “A lot of people are saying that there were two explosions, but we all heard three,” he says.
“It sounded like a gun shot. At first we thought it as a balloon, but then we felt the vibrations and stuff so we realised it wasn’t a balloon. Our parents heard the explosion from [their] hotel.”
A 15-year-old girl tells the Guardian: “There were people falling over the chairs trying to get away and when we were running out we saw blood up the walls.”
Police just did a controlled explosion in Cathedral Garden.
https://twitter.com/EleanorBarlow/status/866815380857212928
So far the fatality count is up to 19, with 50 injured.
There are people in Manchester taking in concertgoers that can't get home under the hashtag "RoomForManchester"
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