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UK spy chief ‘profoundly sorry’ for failing to stop concert bombing

The head of Britain’s security services says he is profoundly sorry his spies missed a “significant” opportunity to prevent a deadly 2017 bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester.

Twenty-two people – the youngest aged eight – died and more than 200 were injured when a man detonated a homemade bomb at Manchester Arena in northern England as parents arrived to collect children following the US singer’s show.

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