A resident of Manchester, Salman Abedi, suspected of an explosion during a concert, returned from Libya a few days before the attack.

Abedi came to England from abroad in the last days before the attack.

Prospective suicide bomber returned from Libya, Times newspaper reported. A school friend of Abadi told the publication that Abedi had gone there three weeks ago and returned a few days before the explosion.

On the eve of the police said that the suspect in the explosion 22-year-old young man was born in Manchester, and his family was originally from Libya.

Police and special services are trying to determine whether he has been trained in the Libyan camp of jihadists, where the Islamic state and Al-Qaida groups operate, writes Times.

IG took responsibility for the attack in Manchester the day before.

Abedi has two brothers and a sister. He lived at several addresses in Manchester, including in the house on Elstmore Road, where the police conducted a search.

Parents Abedi fled from Libya from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. After spending several years in London, the family moved to Manchester.

Mother and father, according to some information, now live again in Libya.

A representative of the Manchester police the day before said its main task now is to determine whether the intruder was acting alone or whether he had accomplices.

On suspicion of involvement in the explosion on Tuesday, a 23-year-old man was arrested. He was in the southern suburb of Manchester, Chorleton.

The attack in Manchester occurred on Monday evening during a concert of American singer Ariana Grande.

According to the latest information, as a result of the explosion at the Manchester Arena, 22 people were killed, about 120 were injured.

Salman Abedi was born and raised in Manchester in a family of refugees from Libya. He has two brothers and a sister.

Salman's identity was established quite quickly, since he had documents with him. The police rechecked the data and made sure that it really was Salman Abedi.

As a child Abedi was rooting for the football team "Manchester United".

As representatives of the Arab community of Manchester said, the brother and father of Salman Abedi were quite active and famous parishioners of one of the mosques of Manchester. However, some time ago they left the city.

The Abed family comes from one of the famous and influential tribes of Libya. Representatives of this tribe have so far refused to communicate with journalists.

Manchester has a fairly large Islamic diaspora. But most of them are not Arabs (like the Abadi family), and the natives of Pakistan. They make up about 4% of the population of Manchester.

In Manchester there are several neighborhoods where national minorities live compactly. But people in them are grouped and communicate more largely on a national, rather than a religious basis.

In the last two years, there have been no high-profile cases of the arrest of Muslims in Manchester on suspicion of extremism. However, in 2014, a 20-year-old resident of Manchester Abdullahi Ahmed Jama Fara was arrested and later convicted of preparing terrorist acts.

He also tried to send his 19-year-old friend to Syria.

In 2013, the cousin Farah Ahmed Ibrahim Halani - also a resident of Manchester - left for Somalia and joined the radical group "Al Shabab".

BBC.