A massive explosion occurred at an Ariana Grande concert taking place inside Manchester Arena in England on Monday evening.
Video of the chaos has been posted online in conjunction with reports of injured fans. Manchester police have released a statement saying that “there are a number of confirmed fatalities.”
Update: 19 confirmed dead. The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack. According to some reports, the explosive device was a ‘nail bomb.’
Latest statement on incident at Manchester Arena pic.twitter.com/BEpLOan3dY
— Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) May 23, 2017
Police statement on incident at Manchester Arena pic.twitter.com/gaKASukx9a
— Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) May 22, 2017
NBC News: Law enforcement officials say at least 20 dead and hundreds have been injured following reports of an explosion in Manchester, UK.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 22, 2017
A label rep says that Ariana is “okay.”
https://twitter.com/JoeAaronGregory/status/866784565821677569
22-year-old Majid Khan, who was in attendance, told The Independent:
“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 around 10.40-10,45pm-ish, 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.
Video shows scene in Manchester, England, during 'serious incident' after Ariana Grande concert; fatalities reported https://t.co/ACcGukEXc9 pic.twitter.com/cmAv5nvE4q
— ABC News (@ABC) May 22, 2017
Terrifying. This story is developing…check back for updates.
