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Manchester: after the bomb

27/05/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The World This Week, Manchester: after the bomb

How Manchester and the UK reacted after the blast that killed 22 at a pop music concert.

Perhaps it wasn't surprising that, sooner or later, Britain would fall victim to another mass casualty terror attack. But it still felt shocking. And it gained extra significance with a general election only a matter of days away.
(Photo: Tony Walsh reads his poem 'This is the place' at a vigil in Manchester for casualties of the concert attack
Credit: Reuters)

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