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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Pilling

Manchester Arena bombing ‘might have been prevented’, inquiry finds

The head of MI5 has said he is “profoundly sorry” for the service’s failure to stop the Manchester Arena bombing, after a damning inquiry found it failed to act on key information.

The final report in the three-year probe said the security service received intelligence on Salman Abedi on two separate occasions in the months before he murdered 22 people in May 2017.

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