MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—The police chief leading the investigation into a suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a Manchester concert said Wednesday that the attacker had not acted alone and that authorities were trying to unravel a wider web of plotters.“It’s very clear that this is a network we are investigating,” said Greater Manchester Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.The comments — which came as British troops fanned out across London at prominent sites such as 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace — confirmed what other senior British officials have hinted. It also offered further insights into Britain’s decision to raise the nation’s threat level to its highest point.In Libya, meanwhile, the father and younger brother of the man who British police say bombed the concert in Manchester have been detained, where anti-terror authorities said the brother confessed to knowing “all the details” of the attack plot.Hashim Abedi, the 18-year-old brother of alleged British-born bomber Salman Abedi, 22, was detained in Tripoli Tuesday night, a spokesperson for a Libyan anti-terror force said Wednesday.The Special Deterrent force said in a statement on its Facebook page that Hashim Abedi had told investigators after his arrest that both he and his brother belonged to Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL. “The brother was aware of all the details of the terrorist attack,” the statement said.The father of both young men, Ramadan Abedi, 51, was detained on Wednesday shortly after telling The Associated Press in a phone interview from Tripoli that his son Salman, who British officials said died in the Manchester attack, was innocent and had been planning a religious pilgrimage to Mecca.The father has not been charged and was only detained for questioning, Special Deterrent force spokesperson Ahmed bin Salem said.Prior to his detention Ramadan Abedi confirmed that British authorities had arrested a ...
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