LONDON — More than 250 survivors of the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, in 2017 are taking legal action against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, lawyers said.
Lawyers from three law firms said on Sunday they had lodged a collective complaint on behalf of more than 250 clients to the UK investigatory powers tribunal. They said they could not provide further details because it was an ongoing legal matter.
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi set up a backpack bomb at the Manchester Arena in northwest England at the end of Grande’s concert on May 22, 2017, as thousands of young fans were leaving. More than 100 people were injured, many of them children and teenagers. Abedi died in the explosion.
An official inquiry heard last year that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, did not act quickly enough on key intelligence and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the bombing, the deadliest extremist attack in the UK in recent years.
Abedi had been an “object of interest” for MI5 officials in 2014, but his case was closed shortly afterwards because it was considered low risk.
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