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Soldiers Deployed on Britain's Streets in Race to Foil Second Terror Attack after Threat Level Raised to "Critical"

(Telegraph-UK) Gordon Rayner - Up to 5,000 soldiers will be deployed on Britain's streets amid fears that the Manchester suicide bomber had accomplices preparing further attacks, Theresa May has announced. For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is "expected imminently." Investigators fear that the British-born bomber Salman Abedi, 22, of Libyan descent, was part of a wider network of ISIS-inspired terrorists, including a bomb-maker, who may still be at large. Mrs. May said: "It is a possibility we cannot ignore that there is a wider group of individuals linked to this attack." Intelligence experts believe the device detonated in Manchester on Monday was so sophisticated that Abedi must have either been given specialist training abroad or used a bomb made by a technician who has not yet been captured.
2017-05-24 00:00:00
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