LONDON: Britain's security services missed a 'significant' opportunity to take action which might have prevented a 2017 deadly suicide bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester, an inquiry into the attack concluded on Thursday (Mar 2). Twenty-two people - the youngest aged just eight
LONDON: Britain's security services missed a"significant" opportunity to take action which might have prevented a 2017 deadly suicide bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester, an inquiry into the attack concluded on Thursday .
"There was a significant missed opportunity to take action that might have prevented the attack," Saunders said in his third and final report into the bombing, the deadliest in Britain since the 2005 London transport suicide attacks. A lawyer for 11 families who lost loved ones said the failures highlighted in the report were unacceptable.
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