BREAKING NEWS :- First picture of the man who carried out the bomb atrocity

BREAKING NEWS The first picture of the suicide bomber Salman Abedi, and three men from South Manchester are arrested in police raids.

Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was known to the intelligence services, says Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Her confirmation came as the French Interior Minister Gerard Colomb claimed he has information that  Abedi  had travelled to Syria and had links with Islamic State
He told French television that both British and French intelligence services had information that Abedi had been in Syria.   Ms Rudd refused to be drawn about the nature of the information held by the intelligence services about Abedi, who was raised close to the city centre, but said he was known “up to a point”.

“I am sure that we will get more information about him over the next few days and the next few weeks,” she said.

Ms Rudd disclosed that the intelligence services had been aware of British-born Abedi, who is reported to have recently returned to the UK from a visit to Libya.

Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year’s Eve 1994 to Libyan parents, who had fled that country after becoming opponents of Colonel Gaddafi’s repressive regime.

The BBC are reporting that after spending a few years in London, the family moved to Manchester where his father used to do the call to prayer at a mosque in Didsbury.

Abedi went to school in Manchester and on to Salford University before dropping out, and worked in a bakery.

He had a sister and two brothers.  His mother and father are now believed to be back living in Libya, and for a while he left the UK too, but he is believed to have returned in the past few days.

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said Abedi had not been formally named by the coroner.

Abedi’s family lived at more than one address in the city, including a property at Elsmore Road in the Fallowfield area that was raided by police.

Officers also carried out a search of a property in Whalley Range.

ALSO three men have been arrested in South Manchester in connection with Monday’s bomb attack. Further victims of the attack have been named this morning.