Britain is searching for those involved in the attack. The raids resulted in the arrest of a woman who was later released and another person related to the attack, bringing the number of those arrested during the investigations to seven. At the same time, the Libyan authorities arrested the father of the attacker and his brother.
LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities on Wednesday continued to hunt down a jihadi network suspected of being behind the attack on a banquet hall in Manchester. While the Libyan authorities arrested the father and brother of the attacker, information emerged about how he planned the operation.
Investigators are trying to gather information on the latest suicide bomber, Salman Obeidi, who was born in Britain after his parents fled the regime of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had left the university before finishing his studies.
The New York Times published the image of the thief who was said to have carried it in his left hand, shrapnel including nails and stubs and the remains of a blue backpack bearing the British commercial "Carrymore" badge for cheap sports equipment.
The arrest of the father of the assault port
In the Libyan capital Tripoli, a spokesman for a unit of the Libyan security services arrested the father of the attacker of Manchester on Wednesday.
Ahmed bin Salem, a spokesman for the Special Deterrent Force, a police force of the National Reconciliation Government, said the arrest of his father, Ramadan Obeidi, was also held after the arrest of Salman Obeidi's brother Hisham.
The brother of the perpetrator was already aware of the plot and that his two brothers belonged to the "Islamic State" organization.
The force of deterrence on Facebook that Hisham "reported that he belongs to the organization of the 'Islamic State' accompanied by his brother, Salman Obeidi, the port of the Manchester attack, and admitted his presence in Britain during the preparation period and was clearly aware of the details of this terrorist operation.
"It is very clear that the investigation is about a terrorist network," Manchester Police Chief Ian Hopkins told reporters on Wednesday.
Arrests in Manchester
Police said they carried out "raids on Wednesday night in Blackley," one of the neighborhoods north of Manchester, noting that she "arrested a woman" without giving details of her age or identity, but was later released.
British police later announced they had arrested a seventh person as part of an investigation into the attack that killed 22 people attending a concert in the northwestern city of Manchester on Monday.
Police said the seventh arrest took place after a raid in the city of Nuniton in Warwickshire, central England. It was the first arrest outside the Manchester area in connection with Monday's attack.
After a 23-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday, police said they also arrested three others on Wednesday in southern Manchester, where Ubaidi lived. V. was later arrested.
Police carried out a raid in central Manchester on Wednesday, saying it had closed a nearby railway line "briefly".
Hundreds of British troops have been deployed around the country's main sites, including parliament, Buckingham Palace and foreign embassies in London, in an unusual scene on the streets of Britain since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict in the 1990s.
Officials said Abedi, 22, was known by the intelligence services before the attack on the hall and warned that another attack might be "imminent".
Deploying the army and strengthening security measures
British Prime Minister Teresa Mae announced Tuesday night that she was on a "critical" alert for the first time since June 2007 when an attack occurred at Glasgow airport.
The previously unpublished army deployment plan known as the "Tempreer Operation" was unveiled. The operation is believed to allow the deployment of up to 5,000 troops.
The military was last deployed on British streets after a possible plot to blow up a British Airways flight in 2003.
British police announced additional security measures to protect future sporting events, including the final on Saturday in the FA Cup.
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