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Teenage Couple, Teacher and Officer Among 22 Killed in Manchester Bombing
Left to right, from top row:
Martyn Hett, Eilidh Macleod, Liam Curry and Chloe Rutherford, Georgina
Callander, Saffie Rose Roussos, Marcin and Angelika Klis, Kelly
Brewster, Nell Jones, Michelle Kiss, Elaine McIver, Philip Tron and
Courtney Boyle.
A teenage couple in love, dreaming of traveling the world together.
An
off-duty police officer, taking a break from the stresses of fighting
organized crime to enjoy a concert with her husband and two children.
A Polish couple, waiting to pick up their children from a concert and unaware it would be their last moments of parental duty.
On Thursday, the grim task of confirming those who had died in the Manchester attack appeared to be coming to an end.
The
police said that they were confident they had identified all 22 people
who died in the attack — but they added that they would not reveal all
of the names until post-mortems were concluded, which could take several
more days.
Families
and friends have confirmed the deaths of loved ones to the police or to
schools or on social media. The process helped bring a small measure of
closure after Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan descent,
set off a crude bomb after a performance by the pop singer Ariana
Grande on Monday night. It was the worst terrorist attack on British
soil since 2005.
Many of the victims were teenagers or parents waiting for their children after a concert, like the Polish couple, Angelika and Marcin Klis, who were living in York.
Among the latest victims to be identified were Eilidh MacLeod, 14, of the Isle of Barra, in Scotland; Elaine McIver, the off-duty police officer; Wendy Fawell, a schoolteacher from West Yorkshire; and Courtney Boyle, 19, a criminology and psychology student, and her stepfather, Philip Tron, a “Star Wars” and Andrea Bocelli fan.
A vigil on Wednesday in St Ann’s Square in Manchester, to commemorate the bombing victims.Credit
Andrew Testa for The New York Time
The teenage couple — Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19
— were described by their families as wanting to “be together forever.”
Relatives said the teenagers, from South Shields in northeast England,
were the personification of blooming love.
“Liam
adored and would do anything” for his girlfriend, “including dealing
with Chloe’s demands for chocolate,” the families said in a joint statement.
“They were perfect in every way for each other and were meant to be.
They were beautiful inside and out to ourselves and our families, and
they were inseparable. They wanted to be together forever — and now they
are.”
Eilidh
was described as a sprightly teenager as at ease playing bagpipes in
her band as she was listening to Ms. Grande. “Our family is devastated
and words cannot express how we feel at losing our darling Eilidh,” the
family said. The teenager had gone to the concert with a friend, Laura
MacIntyre, who was hospitalized and in serious condition, according to
news reports.
Ms.
McIver, the off-duty police officer, was remembered for her resilient
spirit. She had been working in a unit in northwest England that fights
organized crime like drug trafficking. “Despite what has happened to
her, she would want us all to carry on regardless, and not be frightened
by fear tactics,” her family said, urging against despair. “Instead,
she regularly urged us all to rise up against it.”
According to news reports, Ms. Fawell, a single mother, was at the concert with her 15-year-old daughter, Charlotte, and some friends.
A public relations manager, Martyn Hett,
from Stockport in Greater Manchester, was such a passionate fan of
“Coronation Street” that he had a tattoo on his leg of one of the soap
opera’s characters, Deirdre Barlow. Mr. Hett was so adept at public
relations that last year, after his mother, Figen, said she was
downtrodden after failing to sell any of her handicrafts at a charity
art fair, he turned to social media to promote them.
After they began selling well, he posted the text she had sent him. “You’ve made your mother very happy,” it said.
In
a moving vigil Wednesday night in Bury, in Greater Manchester,
Charlotte Campbell, the mother of Olivia Campbell, a 15-year-old who
died in the bombing, made an emotional plea not to give in to terrorism.
Earlier,
when her daughter’s fate was unknown, Ms. Campbell had made a tearful
appeal on television for information about Olivia’s whereabouts,
becoming a powerful symbol of the suffering that the attack inflicted.
“Please
stay together,” Ms. Campbell said at the vigil on Wednesday. “Don’t let
this beat any of us, please. Don’t let my daughter be a victim.”
Correction: May 25, 2017 Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this
article misstated the severity of the Manchester attack. It was the
worst terrorist attack on British soil since 2005, not 2015.
Follow Dan Bilefsky on Twitter @DanBilefsky. Iliana Magra and Michael Wolgelenter contrib
Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
British leaders were infuriated this week when the name of the
Manchester concert bomber was disclosed by American officials, and
further outraged when The New York Times ran investigators’ photographs of the bomb remnants.
After Prime Minister Theresa May complained bitterly to you, you denounced the leaks on Thursday and vowed to find and punish
the leakers.
But when it comes to keeping secrets, you are hardly a model.
You blithely passed on to the Russians sensitive counterterrorism intelligence from Israel
— and publicly seemed to confirm the breach after your staff denied it.
Speaking by phone to the widely scorned president of the Philippines,
Rodrigo Duterte, you revealed the presence of two nuclear submarines off North Korea, a highly unusual disclosure.
Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking:
American spies collected information last summer revealing that
senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how
to exert influence over you through your advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence.
The
conversations focused on Paul Manafort, your campaign chairman at
the time, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired general who was advising you, the officials said. Both men had indirect ties to Russian
officials, who appeared confident that each could be used to help shape your opinions on Russia.
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