- Reports of ‘explosions’ at Manchester Arena
- Police: ‘There are a number of confirmed fatalities’
- Police ‘responding to serious incident’
- Police warn people to stay away from area
- Emergency services rush to scene
- Panic as concert-goers flee the arena
- Ariana Grande was performing at Manchester Arena
- Singer ‘Okay’ following the incident
At least two ‘explosions’ were reported at Manchester arena—the blasts detonated toward the end of an Ariana Grande concert.
Video showed concert-goers fleeing in panic. Emergency services were responding. “Police responded to reports of an incident at Manchester Arena. Please stay away from the area,” police tweeted.
Majid Khan, 22, 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.
“Everyone was in a huge state of panic, calling each other as some had gone to the toilet whilst this had gone off, so it was just extremely disturbing for everyone there.”