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Multiple Fatalities At Pop Music Concert In England - Possible Explosions Or Gunfire, Or Stampede

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  23 comments

Multiple Fatalities At Pop Music Concert In England - Possible Explosions Or Gunfire, Or Stampede

nytimes.com

Police in England Report Fatalities at Ariana Grande Concert


Matthew Haag


Near the Manchester Arena after explosions were reported at a concert by Ariana Grande on Monday. Rex Features, via Associated Press

The police in England, said multiple people were killed and injured on Monday night in a possible explosion at an arena where Ariana Grande was performing.

People at the concert at Manchester Arena said they heard what sounded like explosions at the end of the show. Scant details were available.

One concertgoer, Sasina Akhtar, told The Manchester Evening News that there was an explosion at the back of the arena after her last song. “We saw young girls with blood on them, everyone was screaming and people were running,” she said.

Videos posted on Twitter showed concertgoers running and screaming from their seats. Hannah Dane, who attended the perofrmance, told The Guardian that she heard “quite a loud explosion heard from inside the Manchester Arena.”

She added, “It shook, then everyone screamed and tried to get out”.


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JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago
 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy    7 years ago

Sounds like terrorism 

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy    7 years ago

Could be a panicked stampede.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Randy   7 years ago

I've been looking at twitter. Not a lot of info coming. Some people say explosions , some say a speaker blew and people panicked into a stampede.

One thing they all say is there are people dead.

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

It's an enclosed arena that holds 20,000, which makes it about the size of a small hockey arena and if a piece of equipment blows it's going to make a hell of a sound that's going to bounce around inside of the space. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy    7 years ago

Terrorism

Pat Carney, the council's spokesman for the city centre, said everyone's thoughts were with the families of those killed and injured.

"It's a very easy target - a concert hall where young people are enjoying music," he said.

"The public are really co-operating by staying away from what is basically now a crime site.

"The world we live in, police and the council have emergency procedures that we practise all the time.

"Obviously everyone in the city is shocked, having seen how young some of these people are

"The police are treating it as a live site, we don't know if this is the end or there are other incidents in that area... we don't know at the moment."

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

Whatever it was, it seems pretty serious

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People waiting at A&E at Wythenshawe Hospital have been asked to leave if they're not serious as staff expect 'mass casualties'

 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy    7 years ago

MSNBC is reporting that it was a suicide bomber who didn't make it into the arena, but blew him or herself up by the box office as people were leaving, but that most injures seem to have been from the panic.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy    7 years ago

it would be a major surprise if it hadn't been terrorism.

 

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   Krishna  replied to  Sean Treacy   7 years ago

There was another rce terror attack in the U.K. just last month:

 

What happened?

The attack lasted  82 seconds.

It began at  14:40 GMT  when  Khalid Masood  drove a car - hired from a depot in Birmingham - over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament.

One witness said he sped up, mounted the pavement, and began hitting pedestrians indiscriminately.

Police believe Masood was driving at up to 76mph.


82-second attack

  • 14:40:08  - Masood's car mounts pavement on Westminster Bridge and hits pedestrians
  • 14:40:38  - Masood crashes into perimeter fence of Palace of Westminster
  • 14:40:59  - First 999 call made to Met police
  • 14:41:30  - Masood leaves vehicle, runs towards Parliament, and is shot dead

The car then crashed into railings outside the Palace of Westminster.

Masood, armed with a knife, left his car and ran towards Parliament, where he was confronted by police.

PC Keith Palmer - who was wearing a protective vest but was not armed - was stabbed and killed. Masood was then shot dead by armed officers.

(LINK)

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     7 years ago

The officer killed was not armed...This I don't understand with all the terrorist attacks in the UK and he's at Parliament House and not armed!!!!

 
 

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