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Stay safe there; anyone local?
Apparently Manchester Victoria station is blocked too
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40007886
Hoping it's just crowd panic from a malfunctioning show pyrotechnic. Stampede injuries and no deliberate intention to harm.
fake pics circulating on twitter of injured people
&
trump fans tweeting #prayformanchester 🙄
Looks like they are right next to each other
Manchester Evening News website has a couple of tweets suggesting it was a gas filled balloon inside the arena that had burst?
Number of confirmed fatalities according to the police. RIP.
Ah, ****. Police confirming 'a number of fatalities'
FFS.
Yes, police confirming fatalities. Surrounding area closed off too including rail network.
Stay safe folks- Taking my kids to KISS next week 😯
mass panic by the looks of it.
Ffs it's a gig that's mainly attended by teenage kids. Not that it matters but it's just so ****ed up to attack something like that!
Reports only say that there was a loud bang or explosion, then people ran for the exits, seems likely most injuries and fatalities are due to panic, there doesn't seem to be any explanation for the bang, or any signs of injuries as a direct result.
Horrible situation to be in, terrible for the families of those caught up in it.
😐
Some reports suggest an explosion at an exit.
"For all updates on the incident at Manchester Arena please follow @gmpolice on Twitter"
Just heard that my sister in law and her daughter are there. They're full of cuts but have got back to the car ok thank goodness. 😯
Popped up on a friend's Facebook before the media picked up in it. He couldn't find his partner and reverted to social media in case friends had seen her. They're safe but sadly not sounding good for others.
The MEN, ironically, has it's finger on the pulse here. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-arena-explosion-evacuated-ariana-13075807
Lost kids are being taken to the Holiday Inn across the way. Check there if you're missing someone.
I'm a Piccadilly train driver, been helping people from Victoria get taxis home here.
Lots of shock up people, and most of the concert goers seem to be young girls which is sickening.
Armed machine gunned police all over Piccadilly.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's a bomb. I wouldn't think that people tend to be perfectly clothed but bleeding profusely if they been trampled on - shrapnel tends to do that though.
The booms of the two explosions sound eerily similar to the French stadium ones as well. Stay safe lads, I know there are lots of Mancs on here and Northerners in the emergency services.
All the people I spoke to said it was a bomb and others thought it was gun shots but a bomb seems most likely from the state of people.
Claims of a nail bomb
Jesus
Not good at all. Thoughts with all involved. Too close to home this one.
Claims of a nail bomb
From whom, exactly?
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6cqdye/manchester_arena_explosions_two_loud_bangs_heard/
Some people claiming that bag checks weren't done.
Armed man outside Oldham hospital now apparantly? Hope that's not true
.....yeah - somehow doubt it was a stampede Cougar.
From whom, exactly?
Nhs workers apparently.
Some people claiming that bag checks weren't done.
Lots of people claiming lots of things, all conjecture as far as I can tell.
If it is a bomb, I very much doubt it would have been sneaked in in a handbag, when you can walk straight in off the street at the end of an event.
Whilst not wishing to express an opinion either way, I wouldn't rush to Facebook as a source of information.
Nhs workers apparently.
Source please?
Shit loads of speculation but virtually all of it pointing towards bombs and more than a couple of fatalities. Very very sad that people will do this to mainly innocent young kids.
I'm hearing up to 16 dead and 40+ injured.
Lbc radio
Witness on BBC saying he was thrown 30 foot by an explosion.
.....yeah - somehow doubt it was a stampede Cougar.
No-one knows much at this point. I don't doubt that your Facebook poster there got caught up in it, and that that must've been horrific and terrifying, but it clarifies nothing as to what actually happened.
I get your point Cougar, but you don't get thrown 30 foot by a stampede or a helium balloon.
Cougar I appreciate you've got your mod head on here but even you must admit it's looking like what we all think it is. And yes we are only thinking it as it's not confirmed by a man in a uniform yet, however we all know of the real threat that's out there.
Tom, stop. Nows not the time.
Sure.
Sorry guys.
Take care all, hope all your families are safe and sound.
It's not a mod head, it's a rational head.
We're relying on eye witness accounts which are only reliable if corroborated. Someone may well have been thrown 30 feet; equally, they may well be exaggerating, or have entirely made it up. Maybe they were thrown 60 feet? Who knows.
"We all know the real threat that's out there" is blatant scaremongering. There's a million possible causes for an explosion, not all of them are down to brown people with beards and rucksacks. It's entirely possible that it was a terrorist attack; equally, it could've been a faulty boiler.
Having just listened to that video, he sounds genuine.
All I'm saying is, don't jump to conclusions.
The Oldham Hospital report of an armed man is a god example of Chinese whispers; hospital has gone on 'lockdown' as a standard response to local events, that gets misentepreted by someone, who tells someone else, it's juicy so it's spread and suddenly there's armed men outside a hospital.
To confirm, there isn't.
GMP have confirmed at least 19 dead
The Oldham Hospital report
It's being reported almost precisely nowhere. It's a one-liner on Reddit, and another one-liner on the Daily Star website based on a couple of Tweets from people having heard a noise.
Cheers v8, about what I was thinking.
GMP have confirmed at least 19 dead
Ugh, ouch. Thanks for the update.
EDIT: Confirmed where?
Absolutely. I was referring to the earlier post.
Listened to LBC on way home from work .. Speaking to folks that were at the gig .. Doesn't sound like something accidentally blew up 🙁
Yeah clearly scaremongering tonight.
And don't begin to insinuate I think that way, and/or I have issues with brown people.
At that I'll leave it.
A very sad night however it turns out.
RIP
[url= https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866808564316344321 ]GMP Twitter update[/url]
So sad - 19 dead so far and 50 + injured. Some sick bastard has detonated a bomb at a concert attended mainly by young girls. You can't stoop much lower than that.
Thoughts with anyone affected by this horrendous tragedy
My daughter, and her friend, got home 30 mins ago from this.
It's horrible.
Please let's leave it here and just have thoughts for those that have lost their lives.
Glad they're physically okay Withersea, I don't feel like waking up and reading another sad story connected to STW.
Go and give them a big hug instead of posting on here!
[url= https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866813662505447424 ]GMP reporting an imminent controlled explosion[/url]
Controlled explosion just heard in background of live BBC feed
lost for words.... just terrible.
Withersea - glad to hear they're ok - can't imagine what this evening's been like for them and you
Which was just heard on the live BBC broadcast
And then we have nuggets like this:
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BBC saying the police have confirmed it was a bomb.
[url= https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866816910612103169 ]GMP[/url] confirm suspicious package was abandoned clothing, not a bomb
I meant the initial explosion/s
No words. Hope everyone safe and accounted for.
I wasn't responding to you, I was merely sharing the update.
Yep, some of the tweets being posted are in very poor taste/vile to say the least, personally I'd take the phones from them and break their fingers so they couldn't tweet for a while.
I wonder if the origins of his name "Diego" are lost on him as well...
They just said that on the live feed on iplayer, Cougar!
Redacted, I'm tired and grumpy and going to bed.
Awful stuff.
It's okay Cougar, night matey. I annoy people, I accept that.
Jesus, rather harrowing eye witness account on LBC saying she saw people on the ground with partially missing limbs. It's just gonna be teenage girls and their mums at that gig, who would want to do that!? RIP those that haven't made it home tonight 😥
Seriously shitty.
who would want to do that!?
Cowardly ****s.
It was mostly teenage girls and mums jekkyl.
Just woke up to this 😯
That's properly crap, targeting a concert attended by kids. Regardless of the motives, it can NEVER be justified. Even in all-out war it would be a massive no-no!
I don't think there's any situation where bombs like this are justified, irrespective of the age/sex of the intended victims.
Thoughts with victims, friends and families.