Thread: UK: Manchester Arena - Explosion, Fatalities

Originally Posted by blue

great , Manchester home of the BBC but we need America to speculate about what happened ..

Ftfy.

yes,not to be confused with the ace reporting from the bbc, who speculated that balloons popping had caused panic- leading to people getting crushed to death.

Link or quote of the bbc saying it was just balloons popping appreciated.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I suspect false flag by neo nazi skin head BNP nutters. Just gut feeling.

Wouldn't surprise me, those buriramboy types has taken the boots out of the wardrobe for polishing.
Election upcoming.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Link or quote of the bbc saying it was just balloons popping appreciated.

It was on the live BBC news feed this morning. Obviously updated as more reports came in.

'There was blood and bodies everywhere': witnesses describe aftermath of Manchester explosion

Telegraph Reporters.

23 MAY 2017 • 3:12AM

Concert-goers and witnesses have described the chaos after "huge bomb-like bangs" went off in Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande gig killing 19 people and injuring about 50 more.


Here are some of their accounts:


'I saw bodies lying on the ground'

Andy Holey, who had gone to Manchester Arena to pick up his wife and daughter who had been at the concert, told BBC: "As I was waiting, an explosion went off and it threw me about 30 feet from one set of doors to the other set of doors.

"When I got up I saw bodies lying on the ground. My first thought was to go into the arena to try to find my family.

"When I couldn't find them, I went outside with the police and fire and looked through some of the bodies to try and find my wife and daughter."

Mr Holey told BBC that he did find his family and they were fine.

"It was definitely an explosion and it was some force. It happened near the box office at the entrance to the Arena."


'We heard the last song go, then suddenly a massive flash and then a bang and smoke'

Gary Walker from Leeds told BBC Radio 5 Live he was hit by shrapnel in his foot and his wife sustained a stomach wound as they waited for their daughters to come out of the concert.

"We heard the last song go and then suddenly there was a massive flash and then a bang and smoke," he said.

'It was a huge explosion - you could feel it in your chest'

Catherine Macfarlane told Reuters that she felt a massive explosion as she was leaving the concert.

"We were making our way out and when we were right by the door there was a massive explosion and everybody was screaming.

"It was a huge explosion - you could feel it in your chest. It was chaotic. Everybody was running and screaming and just trying to get out of the area."


'Everyone was in a huge state of panic'

Majid Khan, 22, went to the concert with his sister. He described how the explosion hit the venue as they were leaving the building.

"I and my sister, along with a lot of others, were seeing Ariana Grande perform at Manchester Arena, and we were all exiting the venue when a huge bomb-like bang went off that hugely panicked everyone and we were all trying to flee the arena.

"It was one bang and essentially everyone from the other side of the arena where the bang was heard from suddenly came running towards us as they were trying to exit Trinity Way and that was blocked so everyone was just running to any exit they could find as quickly as they could.

"Everyone was in a huge state of panic, calling each other as some had gone to the toilet whilst this had gone off, so it was just extremely disturbing for everyone there."



Oliver Jones, 17, was at the concert with his 19-year-old sister.

He said: "I was in the toilet and heard a loud bang just after the concert had finished and people had started to leave.

"The bang echoed around the foyer of the arena and people started to run.

"I seen people running and screaming towards one direction and then many were turning around to run back the other way.

"Security was running out as well as the fans and concert goers.

"Reports of blood and people injured."

He added: "In so much shock and panic. You see this on the news all the time and never expect it to happen to you. I just had to run and make sure me and my sister were safe."


'There was a sound like thunder'

A barman at the nearby Steven Charles Snooker Club, who gave his name as Tyler, said he saw people lying on the ground covered in blood.

"We've had a few people in with panic attacks and in all kinds of disarray," he told the Press Association.

"We've got four girls here - trying to get them sorted to get picked up.

"There was a gentleman on the floor with his leg all bleeding and woman with blood down one side of her face.

"We felt something but didn't know what it was - there was a sound like thunder.

"One girl had a panic attack and another had streaming tears, a woman had a heart attack just outside.

"It's a lot of teenagers - they're all in tears."


'I heard a huge bang'

Suzy Mitchell, 26, whose flat is opposite the venue, reported a huge bang rocking the neighbourhood.

She told PA: "(I) just heard a huge bang from my bed, came out to the front of my apartments (we're on the top floor so have perfect view) and everyone was running away in big crowds.

"The bang was so big I heard it from my room which is at the back of the apartment blocks.

"Currently lots of emergency services going to and from. But can't see anything substantial as of yet except fleeing people and lots of cars."


'Lucky to have gotten away'

Robert Tempkin, 22, from Middlesbrough, told the BBC: "Everyone was screaming and running, there were coats and people's phones on the floor. People just dropped everything.

"Some people were screaming they'd seen blood but other people were saying it was balloons busting or a speaker had been popped.

"There were lots of ambulances. I saw somebody being treated. I couldn't tell what had happened to him."

'The corridor was full, it smelled of burning'

Isabel Hodgins, an actress who had been attending the concert, told Sky News: "Everybody was panicking, there was pushing up the stairs.

"The corridor was full, it smelled of burning, there was quite a lot of smoke as we were leaving.

"It's just shocking and we just feel very shaken up. We're just lucky to have gotten away safely," she said.

'There was blood and bodies everywhere': witnesses describe aftermath of Manchester explosion



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this atrocity was very close to the corporation street IRA bomb in 1996.
i expect the coward and terrorist sympathiser jeremy corbyn will feel the warm glow of nostalgia when he makes the obligatory politicians visit and condescending speech at the site of tonights bomb.

Right, so they were just reporting earlier that it might have been just panic caused by an unrecognised noise, but it very quickly became obvious that it was far more serious than that.

Thank you 'non nutter' Kmart.

Yep, this is bound to boost May " TOUGH ON FOREIGNERS, TOUGH ON TERRORISM" rhetoric and the cheap Tory nationalists painting Corbyn as the bomb maker, IRA, mass murdering demon from Terrorist hell who stalked Manchester, eh?.

When's the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Tax, when your Paras shot dead 13 defenceless, unarmed men and boys in the back.

This atrocity is a Heaven sent boost for the bitch May which will stem the flow of support for Corbyn that has flooded his way since the dementia tax fiasco etc.

Out of one atrocity, another.

The jokes have started already.

The last time I listened to Ariana Grande I almost died too.

Well, if their was any existing doubt left about Brexit, and the UK tightening up it's borders and national security, such doubt is now conclusively removed. A major win for the BNP.

Britain should declare a moratorium on asylum seekers forthwith, and arrange secure internment camps for those considered potential risks, and undesirables. Learn from Australia- another imperfect nation that actually tries to address the concerns of it's citizens. In your case Poms, those concerns have become all too real.


Atrocious.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

When's the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Tax, when your Paras shot dead 13 defenceless, unarmed men and boys in the back.

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It's 30th January (1972). You may be interested to know that 20th August this year will see the 19th anniversary of the Omagh bombing by the IRA, in which 29 innocent civilians were killed and 220 injured.

Indeed, the stupidity of the knee jerk reaction is of course lost on the lumpen British morons and their cheerleaders, UKIP, BNF and the Tory right wing who ignore the fact the terrorists are all mostly homegrown nutters.

Islam is of course the culprit, as indeed was Christianity during the Irish Troubles............not.

a bomb of this power, and, according to witnesses and hospital workers, packed with nuts and bolts, would appear to have been professionally constructed and therefore a team effort rather than the work of the pacifists favourite suspect , the irreligious loner with "mental health issues"

i suspect manchester police will by now be hunting down a terrorist cell consisting of half a dozen or so males, none of whom eat pork and the family of the suicide bomber whom the police already suspect was responsible for the carnage.

Just another day in shity old Pomland.

That's why you Golians are in Thailand Eh.

Good move by the way.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

This atrocity is a Heaven sent boost for the bitch May which will stem the flow of support for Corbyn that has flooded his way since the dementia tax fiasco etc.

Agree with that. Also makes me suspicious of it being a false flag to garner sympathy for the far right. That aside, whomever did this pure scum.

Originally Posted by taxexile

a bomb of this power, and, according to witnesses and hospital workers, packed with nuts and bolts, would appear to have been professionally constructed and therefore a team effort rather than the work of the pacifists favourite suspect , the irreligious loner with "mental health issues"

i suspect manchester police will by now be hunting down a terrorist cell consisting of half a dozen or so males, none of whom eat pork and the family of the suicide bomber whom the police already suspect was responsible for the carnage.

Indeed. Once survivors are interviewed, and the undoubtably available CCTV footage pored over, I would expect a few houses being raided during the coming hours/days.

Also makes me suspicious of it being a false flag

how exactly?

Originally Posted by PAG

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

When's the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Tax, when your Paras shot dead 13 defenceless, unarmed men and boys in the back.

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It's 30th January (1972). You may be interested to know that 20th August this year will see the 19th anniversary of the Omagh bombing by the IRA, in which 29 innocent civilians were killed and 220 injured.

It wasn't the IRA, a splinter group unsanctioned by anyone in the IRA were responsible, the RIRA.

But let's not get bogged down in minor detail, the suppression of Irish nationalism by the British implementing their ethnic cleansing practices did account for over a million Irish deaths and the so-called pacification of the Irish volunteer army and innocent catholics in Ireland after 1918 by the Black 'n Tans and the Auxiliaries did lead to 2000 murders of Catholic Irish men women and children.

Just a bit of perspective for you ignoramuses.

Originally Posted by taxexile

how exactly?

May will stop at nothing to hold on to power. Look at it this way- the west funds terrorism by constantly doing business with Saudi. The arms trade is big money and events like this give a reason for more business. A circle of death.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

But let's not get bogged down in minor detail,

You brought up 'The Troubles', no one else.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Also makes me suspicious of it being a false flag

how exactly?

Cherchez la femme.......

oh, i see.

those concert goers, those commuters in london 10 years ago, those in france last year and spain a few years ago, and of course those terrible americans and their crazy presidents, they all brought it on themselves by not imploring their governments to stop the arms trade.

Originally Posted by sabang

Well, if their was any existing doubt left about Brexit, and the UK tightening up it's borders and national security, such doubt is now conclusively removed.

Sadly, cynically, my first thought too.

RIP kids.

Originally Posted by taxexile

those concert goers, those commuters in london 10 years ago, those in france last year and spain a few years ago, and of course those terrible americans and their crazy presidents, they all brought it on themselves by not imploring their governments to stop the arms trade.

Yes it is stupid to blame the arms trade, we know that arms are only intended to be used for defense.