{"id":7093,"date":"2017-05-23T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2017-05-23T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:38:13","slug":"22-killed-in-uk-concert-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/05\/23\/22-killed-in-uk-concert-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"22 killed in UK concert blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called &#8220;an appalling suicide attack&#8221; after an Ariana Grande concert Monday night at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terrorism. A senior White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump, who is on a visit to Jerusalem, had been briefed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police said the explosion took place outside the arena, which is near the Manchester Victoria transit station, as the concert ended at about 10:35 p.m. local time (5:35 p.m. ET), catching people as they exited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Hopkins, chief constable of the Greater Manchester Police, said investigators were coordinating with British intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly a very concerning time for everyone,&#8221; he said at a brief news conference early Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called &ldquo;an appalling suicide attack&rdquo; after an Ariana Grande concert Monday night at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said. &nbsp; Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terrorism. A senior White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump, who is on a visit to Jerusalem, had been briefed. &nbsp; Police said the explosion took place outside the arena, which is near the Manchester Victoria transit station,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}