Manchester attacker's younger brother arrested in Tripoli

Thomson Reuters

TRIPOLI, May 24 (Reuters) - The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue in Manchester has been arrested in Tripoli on suspicion of links with Islamic State, a spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force said on Wednesday.

The force, known as Rada, detained Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, on Tuesday evening, spokesman Ahmed Bin Salem told Reuters.

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(Reporting by Ahmed Elumami; Writing by Aidan Lewis; editing by Patrick Markey)

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