Ariana Grande concert bombing in Manchester | Explosion kills at least 19

good evening thanks for joining us breaking news from

manchester

england tonight a deadly

explosion

outside an

ariana

grande

concert

killing at

least

22 injured at

least

59 police treating this as a terrorist incident the main theory a suicide bomber we reject the boss ABC foreign correspondent Terry Moran in London Terry Byron, who was right at the end of Ariana Grande's

concert

tonight in a stadium full of her fans, including so many teenagers and girls and their moms, that was her fan base when this big

explosion

shook not only the sand. but the entire surrounding neighborhood has felt blocks away.

Arena officials said the explosion occurred just outside the venue as people were coming and going. Eyewitnesses saw many dead and injured people on the ground inside the lights, panic ignited and people headed for the exits. They helped the injured and helped each other out while law enforcement invaded the scene and established a perimeter. Distraught parents took to social media to search for their loved ones tonight. Manchester Police are investigating this as a major terrorist incident in the city is on the brink of collapse. Moran thanks tonight to witnesses who described a panicked scene on the night that was supposed to be about music and fun.

That's the sound of the explosion that rocked Manchester, England tonight. Oh what an unidentified explosion outside Manchester Arena that caused bloodshed at an Ariana Grande concert. 22 confirmed dead including children and a huge 59 inch flash and then a warship just thought what the hell is that and all you could hear were screams and people crying everyone was running everywhere authorities say a single attacker detonated an AED causing the man we are mourning today, but we are strong today, everything will continue as usual as much as possible in our great city. British Prime Minister Theresa May called this an atrocious terrorist attack, although there was a lot of screaming and many parents trying to resolve together their families the loss of the children they were there with no parents there was no one to calm them down so they just screamed and cried and they pushed shocking what happened life is like everywhere the ground shook it was like bang bang panic concert goers running towards the exits after the boom mccords russian to sleep we are working closely with the National Anti-Terrorist Police Network and intelligence partners from United Kingdom.

This is clearly a very worrying time for everyone. The concert began at 7:35 p.m. local time, part of the pop singer Dangerous Woman arrived at the packed stadium, one of the largest in Europe with more than 20,000 seats, it was almost full according to witnesses. Evo Delgado Rivero was present, everything was going perfectly and then the concert scene is quite abrupt and then the lights went out and everyone started heading to the exits around 10:30 3 p.m. After the concert ended, the fans in the arena were surrounded by pink balloons by a loud noise. I ran to the ground.

Dad left. The lights had turned on. Everyone was getting out of their seats and walking towards the stairs where, suddenly, a loud sound was heard. As usual there was an explosion and there was an explosion that threw me through the first set of doors about 30 feet, so at the next set of doors, when I got up and around there were about 30 people, that's it everywhere, some of them look like this. Then we heard a loud bang and everyone started running in the opposite direction. We opened the door that led to the main hallway. It was full of smoke so we were trying not to push and everyone was really trying to protect the kids.

Police dash cam video capturing the slight flicker of light and a loud noise let's take your time at the convention in the village there's no need for the public address announcer to try to prevent a stampede by calming the crowd to keep the calm many children and teenagers attending the chaos is spreading through the streets of Manchester recently 160 miles from London, family and friends take to Twitter to post dozens of photos in search of their missing loved ones. Charlotte Campbell says her 15-year-old daughter Olivia hasn't been heard from in hours. I don't know if she'll come back through the door or No, I feel sick in one part of my stomach and should I just go home?

Local hotels reportedly shelter children separated from the shepherds several hours later, police alerted those nearby of a possible secondary object and stayed away as it was destroyed in a controlled explosion authorities later confirmed that it was It was about abandoned clothing and it was not a suspicious item tonight, the latest incident to shake Europe Manchester joins the growing list of cities threatened by terrorism. The UK has been on high alert since last March after the attack in London near the parliament chamber 52-year-old Khalid Masood drove a car onto a pedestrian bridge before accidentally stabbing a police officer.

Four people died. Grande's representatives confirmed tonight that the singer is unharmed. Tonight he tweeted from the bottom of my heart. I'm really sorry. I'm at a loss for words, the online support reaches out to everyone, the message pray from Manchester, the investigation continues, emergency services continue to work at the scene as dawn breaks in this grim city and for more information we now turn to the former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and former Homeland Security. Officer Richard Clarke, gentlemen, we have had these conversations too many times before, where do you think law enforcement was focusing its attention at this hour?

Oh, there's a lot of things they're focusing on, obviously, the suicide bomber, the body of the bomber is going to give them a lot of information, a lot of forensic work will be done trying to gather information to see any signatures on the bomb chamber, cameras are ubiquitous these days to watch the cameras, any informant they have that can give them you know real time information about any ongoing investigation that may or may not have involved this individual or someone close to them, then think about the traces of a who this could lead to, or once they know who it was, they will search the cell phone. phone records they'll look at internet records and do a web search, they'll come out and say who your friend was, who you're talking to, who you're talking to.

The third and fourth level will try to find out who he is. there is an ongoing threat there is an ongoing network that could do it again a public place yes another saw the target this seems different this involved a concert where there were young girls there with their mothers young families teenage girls this seems different to me maybe oh yes There could be been the venue that is in this city, it is a large stadium with a capacity of 21,000 people, so it could have been the target of the opportunity, but hopefully that will come to light in the investigation of why this target was chosen and what we saw here was that you can. take a place and you can lock it down, you can lock everyone in, you can put everyone through magnetometers, but just outside that perimeter there will be a lot of people and those people are a target, there is a point towards Isis, do you think I know what it is?

From the beginning, hey, you know I've researched premises and this is something that was obviously put into the equation, but you don't want to rule anything out right now, but this is the kind of thing that Isis teaches to look for the easy target. Go right outside the perimeter, go for the individual, the individual who is activated and they tell you online how to build a bomb, yes, Richard Clark, Ray Kelly, gentlemen, thank you very much.