29 May 2017
Chemical engineering student and his brother held over the Manchester
terror attack as MI5 launch investigation into why it missed the danger
posed by the bomber
University students Mohamed and Yahya Werfalli were arrested in the
early hours of Saturday - hours before Theresa May lowered the UK’s
terror threat level from critical to severe. The brothers, who like
other suspects are British born but of Libyan heritage, are believed to
move in the same friendship circles as the Manchester bomber Salman
Abedi, also 22. Yahya is listed on Facebook as a friend of the bomber’s
brother, Hashim, 20. Yesterday, armed police raided a home in the Moss
Side area of Manchester after a controlled explosion, while two other
men, 25 and 19, were arrested later in the day.