Manchester attack latest: woman arrested in connection with the attack as police probe 'network'

A woman was arrested in Manchester following an armed raid on a block of flats late on Wednesday evening in connection with Monday’s suicide attack.
Several other arrests were made including a suspect in late night raid in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, as detectives probe a “network” linked to the Manchester suicide bomber.
One suspect, believed to be carrying a package, was also arrested in Wigan earlier today. Seven people have now been arrested in total.
Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi
Meanwhile, the terrorist’s father and brother were detained in Libya.
Abedi’s father, Ramadan Abedi, was allegedly a member of the al-Qaeda-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting group in the 1990s, according to a former Libyan security official, Abdel-Basit Haroun. The elder Abedi denied that he was part of the militant group and told The Associated Press that his son was not involved in the concert bombing and had no connection to militants.
“We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us,” the 51-year-old Abedi said in a telephone interview from Tripoli.
He said he spoke to his son five days ago and that he was getting ready for a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. He said that his son visited Libya a month and a half ago and was planning to return to Libya to spend the holy month of Ramadan with the family. He also denied his son had spent time in Syria or fought with the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the concert bombing.
“Last time I spoke to him, he sounded normal. There was nothing worrying at all until … I heard the news that they are suspecting he was the bomber,” the elder Abedi said.