Terrorist Attack in Manchester (Read MOD WARNING in OP Updated 24/05/2017))

P_1

Troubling tweet just send by GMP. Hope it isn't what I think it is.

https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866774284018102274


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me_irl

Read on twitter that there was two explosions. Hope no one is hurt!

https://twitter.com/SimonNRicketts/status/866773460789407745

Beasty

Christ! Was there last night when Brian Cox was on.

Atlantic Dawn

3 mins and nothing concrete, my guess is all safe and good.

The high horse brigade

Hopefully nothing, was over the the weekend

me_irl

Reading that it was "two bangs" and another source mentioned "gunfire", so the rumour mill is surely in full...er...mill?

https://twitter.com/search?q=manchester&src=typd

Liam McPoyle

Sky news reporting "huge bang" heard in the area, locals reporting people seen fleeing from the area.

koumi

me_irl wrote: »

Reading that it was "two bangs" and another source mentioned "gunfire", so the rumour mill is surely in full...er...mill?

https://twitter.com/search?q=manchester&src=typd

images inside the arena there,

Liam McPoyle

Just showed video footage from inside the arena, alot of panic/ screams.

Richard Hillman

Jesus and at an Ariana Grande concert. It would have been full of Children.

The high horse brigade

Sky are saying it's a blown speaker/pyrotechnics

P_1

https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/866774996626157568

Reports the trainline is blocked.

For context the arena is built above the train station.

DominoDub

May have been from the train system under the arena

mzungu

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

No idea if this is real or not....
https://twitter.com/aryanworsley/status/866779002056429573

That's a fake. A few other similar pictures are going around, but they are not the Manchester arena.

Beasty

Pretty sure those images are from inside the Arena main doors looking out to the concourse which is above the railway station

seamus

It's fake. It's an old photo.

All it takes is one sick fncker to post a fake photo on twatter and it spreads like wildfire.

Don't believe any photos or videos that you don't see on BBC.

5starpool

Lots of conclusions being reached with no facts. If it was actually a bomb or similar there would be more than random panic things on twitter by now surely.

mzungu

Beasty wrote: »

Pretty sure those images are from inside the Arena main doors looking out to the concourse which is above the railway station

I followed the Independent.co.uk link a few posts ago, where a similar picture was posted with the warning on a tweet that it was a fake.

I guess it is early days so it is going to be very hard to tell what is what.

Beyondgone

That pic is being branded fake. ^. Reports of ambulances heading to the Arena tho.

Xenji

Possible gas explosion maybe, if I remember right there is a lot of residential areas around the arena.

Beasty

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Sky are saying it's a blown speaker/pyrotechnics

There is a music boarding school about 50-100m away from the Arena where they have gathered all the children in a room. If they could hear it over there from inside the arena that was a very loud bang

Beasty

Xenji wrote: »

Possible gas explosion maybe, if I remember right there is a lot of residential areas around the arena.

There's no residential accommodation that close the Arena at all. There may be some across a road, near Strangeways, that may be a bit older, but other than that the only accommodation is the music school and some pretty new tower blocks.

MontoAddict

Xenji wrote: »

Possible gas explosion maybe, if I remember right there is a lot of residential areas around the arena.

I love the way you skirt around the obvious possibility.

Allahu Ackbar!

seamus

seamus wrote: »

It's fake. It's an old photo.

All it takes is one sick fncker to post a fake photo on twatter and it spreads like wildfire.

Don't believe any photos or videos that you don't see on BBC.

Any idea where it is? English signs, people on the ground, can't think of when it'd be from.

P_1

Xenji wrote: »

Possible gas explosion maybe, if I remember right there is a lot of residential areas around the arena.

I don't think there is too much residential areas there though. Isn't Victoria essentially bordered by the Arndale and the river?

BorneTobyWilde

Load bangs and they had huge balloons every where, I guess one was beside a mic.
Geez, at least it's not what it seemed to be.

The_Kew_Tour

Reckon it was just a fault of some kind. Hopefully nobody hurt

Atlantic Dawn

GMP now reporting as "serious incident"...
https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866783026218455042

Beyondgone

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Load bangs and they had huge balloons every where, I guess one was beside a mic.
Geez, at least it's not what it seemed to be.

Does sound to be along them lines. People are jumpy.

maudgonner

Being described as a serious incident.

https://twitter.com/gmpolice/status/866783026218455042

Samuel T. Cogley

If you see people sharing this image re Manchester it's already been debunked as being from a training exercise video some years ago.

I had to brave a very large, very black cock to get that. Join twitter they said, it's great they said.

Collie D

P_1 wrote: »

I don't think there is too much residential areas there though. Isn't Victoria essentially bordered by the Arndale and the river?

Sky just had a quote from somebody in a nearby apartment block so taking that at face value there must be some residential units. Would need to be a pretty big speaker for someone in another building to hear it.

Beasty

P_1 wrote: »

I don't think there is too much residential areas there though. Isn't Victoria essentially bordered by the Arndale and the river?

It's Chethams Music School, the Printworks which is shops, restaurants and a cinema, the National Football Museum and those new tower blocks just off the Bury Old Road, with some older buildings in the direction of Strangeways. Other than the station and car park though nothing is as close as 50m to the Arena itself

BorneTobyWilde

Beyondgone wrote: »

Does sound to be along them lines. People are jumpy.

Hmm I dunno, reports of people with blood on them now.

Samuel T. Cogley

Hmm twitter - I assume twit is in there for a reason

Simon Rowntree‏ @SRowntree0161 15m15 minutes ago

Unconfirmed reports here in #Manchester that the IRA have performed an attack on the arena so that Patrick Roberts does not return to #MCFC

Jeff2

seamus wrote: »

It's fake. It's an old photo.

All it takes is one sick fncker to post a fake photo on twatter and it spreads like wildfire.

Don't believe any photos or videos that you don't see on BBC.

The BBC shay really.lol

4068ac1elhodqr

If there's any news it will appear on the news aggregators first, nothing concrete so far, other than Ariana Grande is 'ok'

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Manchester+Arena+Incident

Richard Hillman

They wouldnt be shutting down the train services for a speaker blowing up.

Danzy

It is too early to tell if it is a diversity incident or a false alarm, that outlets like Sky are reporting it as a bomb like event and the police are asking people to avoid the area suggests it is more than a false alarm.

They would have quashed the panic before now if there was only a false alarm, hopefully it is not so but it is following a predictable pattern.

P_1

A witness telling BBC that he saw injuries potentially being caused by a crush.

PTH2009

hopefully its nothing serious and it was just a tech problem

saw a show in that arena in 2015

heading to London in a few weeks for a concert bit iffy about it now

Birneybau

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Hmm twitter - I assume twit is in there for a reason

Simon Rowntree‏ @SRowntree0161 15m15 minutes ago

Unconfirmed reports here in #Manchester that the IRA have performed an attack on the arena so that Patrick Roberts does not return to #MCFC

Some of the stupid, glib tweets just infuriate me. Pricks

Richard Hillman

Richard Hillman wrote: »

They wouldnt be shutting down the train services for a speaker blowing up.

It's been over an hour, where's the bloodied people etc.? Any panic like that (with many injuries or not) will lead to an incident being declared and protocols being followed, such as not having people queueing for trains.

Birneybau

Danzy wrote: »

It is too early to tell if it is a diversity incident or a false alarm, that outlets like Sky are reporting it as a bomb like event and the police are asking people to avoid the area suggests it is more than a false alarm.

They would have quashed the panic before now if there was only a false alarm, hopefully it is not so but it is following a predictable pattern.

Diversity incident? That's a new euphemism to me.

ThisRegard

Richard Hillman wrote: »

They wouldnt be shutting down the train services for a speaker blowing up.

They said they were blocked, not that they shut them down. Could simply be an abundance of people or emergency vehicles blocking the lines, like what could happen to the luas at the Point.

BorneTobyWilde

https://twitter.com/NewsThisSecond/status/866783886193430528

You would have to wonder what they saw or heard to be fleeing like that.

Slattsy

I was in Manchester 9 years ago. Feel blessed.

Danzy

Rekop dog wrote: »

Nothing to see here, if it was anything serious there'd be pictures all over social media straight away.

I'd say only injuries are from crush getting out

That hasn't happened yet, in the many numerous attacks across Europe to date.

I get your point though and I agree that it would seem likely but when the blood is on the floor people seem to have their priorities straight and that is understandable.

ThisRegard

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://twitter.com/NewsThisSecond/status/866783886193430528

You would have to wonder what they saw or heard to be fleeing like that.

Maybe nothing, but other people running, imagination runs wild and the panic snowballs.

Wibbs

Birneybau wrote: »

Diversity incident? That's a new euphemism to me.

Eh... yeah. You and me both. "Diversity incident"? GTFO. Good Lord.

PTH2009 wrote:

hopefully its nothing serious and it was just a tech problem

You and me both P. Folks have become so (naturally) twitchy about such things, but I really hope it's what you said and few people are hurt. Sad event, regardless.

Beyondgone

Slattsy wrote: »

I was in Manchester 9 years ago. Feel blessed.

Ye had a close call.