Manchester bomb used same explosive as Paris and Brussels attacks, says US lawmaker

Mike McCaul, chair of the homeland security committee, says device contained TATP and bomber was not ‘lone wolf’

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The bomb detonated by the Manchester terrorist Salman Abedi used the same explosive as those in the Paris and Brussels attacks, a US lawmaker has said, pointing to a possible link to the same terrorist network.

The chair of the US House’s homeland security committee, the Republican Mike McCaul, said the bomb suggested a “level of sophistication” that implied its maker or makers may have had foreign training.

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