UK police arrest two more in hunt for suicide bomber’s network

LONDON: British police said they had arrested two men on Saturday as they stepped up their efforts to capture a suspected network behind the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester earlier this week.

Officers used a controlled explosion to gain entry to the address in the north of the city where the latest arrests were made. Detectives are now questioning 11 men over



the attack by Salman Abedi at a pop concert in Manchester on Monday.

While Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer said police were confident that they had made “immense” progress and had apprehended a “large part of the network,” extra armed officers will be on duty across the country with security stepped up at some 1,300 events over the long holiday weekend.