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Terrorist Attack in Manchester (Read MOD WARNING in OP Updated 24/05/2017))

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  • Posts: 26,920 [Deleted User]



    I would assume that bomb disposal vehicles would be normal at the site of any explosion without a known cause right now?

    Some harrowing stuff on Twitter - a Holiday Inn supposedly has 50+ children that have become disconnected from their guardians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,992 _Whimsical_
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    This news has just left me feeling sick tonight. :(
    If it's a bomb it's horribly cynical placement, that place will be full of terrified, hysterical girls, it won't be like a football match where you'll have adults more able to fight their way out and through.
    I'm not saying it would be less awful if it were a male adult attended thing, it's just I can really viscerally imagine the horror of so many young girls in one place without as many adults as they'd need in such a situation. It's chilling. I wouldn't be able to look at videos.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,010 La.de.da
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    Horrible, horrible incident.
    Heart goes out to the kids and parents at that concert.

    Can't even enjoy an evening out. Dreadful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 Old_-_School
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    Dozens now reported dead


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 gandalf
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    Danzy wrote: »
    Yes and the Manchester Police and British News Services and Govt. are letting ideal speculation run riot for the hell of it.

    Seriously man are you a Breitbart editor?

    No but until the authorities confirm what happened it's all speculation :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,975 buried
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    The twitter stuff is brutal, all the poor people looking for their kids. Shocking, shocking stuff.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 RayM
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    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Anyone who has been to a concert knows of how the stampedes can​ be so severe. The videos are very chilling.

    Even when leaving a normal concert at the O2, when you can feel the crowd pushing from behind, a sense of mild panic can set in. I've seen videos of the Hillsborough disaster and the Bradford City stadium fire and can't imagine the absolute horror of fleeing somewhere for your life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,170 Itssoeasy
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    Gamebred wrote: »
    Presume it would be confirmed as terror by this stage?
    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Being treated as a terrorist incident according to BBC Radio 5 live
    Yeah they said the police are saying that until they are told otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 Richard Hillman
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    It would be strange for a gas explosion as all of the vendors for food/drink etc would have been well shut down by the end of the concert. Usually after gigs at the Point there may be only 1 bar open by the end. They generally want people out of Arenas pretty quickly during a normal event.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,490 JCX BXC
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    gandalf wrote: »
    No but until the authorities know the reason it's all speculation :rolleyes:

    Shut the thread so?

    All points in one direction.

    I hear that many hotels are taking in children in order to accommodate them and have a telephone number for parents to ring.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,067 Danzy
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    gandalf wrote: »
    No but until the authorities confirm what happened it's all speculation :rolleyes:

    They know the reason but they just need to clarify it, given their statements to date, what has been released officially and unofficially we already know what they are treating it as.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,675 ceadaoin.
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Accidents resulting in deaths or injuries are also treated as crime scenes.
    gandalf wrote: »
    Well if it's an explosion because of an accident caused by negligence it would also make it a crime scene.
    You'd still urge caution labelling it as that though. Might be the police ensuring the response is what it should be in the event it turns out to be terrorism.

    Highly doubt the police would come out and say it was a terrorist incident if there was any possibility it was an accident


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 smelly sock
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    Looking through all of the news agencies nobody has a clue what caused it.

    Id have assumed if it were terror we'd know after 2 hours.

    To me it doesnt have the hallmark of islamic terror. Nowhere near it.


  • Posts: 26,920 [Deleted User]


    This news has just left me feeling sick tonight. :(
    If it's a bomb it's horribly cynical placement, that place will be full of terrified, hysterical girls, it won't be like a football match where you'll have adults more able to fight their way out and through.
    I'm not saying it would be less awful if it were a male adult attended thing, it's just I can really viscerally imagine the horror of so many young girls in one place without as many adults as they'd need in such a situation. It's chilling. I wouldn't be able to look at videos.

    Also as sad ... the guardians that didn't want to be there, but had to so that their child could.

    Saw one photo of an injured middle-aged man being carried out with injuries to his legs.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 cherryghost
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    Transformer explosion? Sounds like it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,774 RobertKK
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    These events whatever the cause, would brings tears to one's eyes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ThisRegard
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    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Highly doubt the police would come out and say it was a terrorist incident if there was any possibility it was an accident

    They didn't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,893 Cheerful Spring
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    I just saw lot of bodies on the floor on Twitter, terrible. This looks like a terrorist attack to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 Richard Hillman
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    Tim Farron (Leader of the Lib Dems) is calling it "An Attack". That is a very strong statement from somebody from the Lib Dems.

    https://twitter.com/MarcStevenPhoto/status/866793290846359553


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 Copper_pipe
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    I just saw lot of bodies on the floor on Twitter, terrible. This looks like a terrorist attack to me.

    Lot of dodgy tweets floating about


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  • Posts: 26,920 [Deleted User]


    Armed police have just pulled someone from a car.

    https://twitter.com/DrNinja_/status/866792307907055617


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,702 AllForIt
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    Tim Farron, leader of the UK liberal party is calling it a terrorist attack. Wonder why he would call it an attack when it's not been officially confirmed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ThisRegard
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    I just saw lot of bodies on the floor on Twitter, terrible. This looks like a terrorist attack to me.

    The fake pic?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 murpho999
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    People say that fatalities could be caused by a crush.

    I really doubt that that can happen in modern day arenas with wide exits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 Duff
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    The toe-rags on Twitter really come out when a tragedy like this happens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,313 Tom Mann Centuria
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    RobertKK wrote: »
    These events whatever the cause, would brings tears to one's eyes.

    Yeah exactly. These people have died and been injured. Whatever the cause, that fact remains.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 cherryghost
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    Really sounds like a transformer explosion


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ricero
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    Shame on merkel ! Blood all over europe on her hands !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 Trond
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    Hearing it was a nail bomb :-(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 Will I Am Not
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    Transformer explosion? Sounds like it

    We're not supposed to speculate.


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