SD on 22/5/2017 at 23:32
Fatalities confirmed following Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
Explosion in the ticket foyer.
Eyewitness estimates 20-30 casualties, many of them children.
Grim.
EDIT: NHS sources stating it was a nail bomb, yet to be confirmed.
demagogue on 23/5/2017 at 00:10
A car plowed into 20 some odd people in Times Sq today too. I haven't read the latest news but I gather it wasn't terrorism, just a really troubled guy going on a rampage. Still makes it part of a bad day.
Trance on 23/5/2017 at 00:14
Dema, that was four days ago.
SD on 23/5/2017 at 00:19
19 confirmed dead so far, 50 injured.
demagogue on 23/5/2017 at 00:34
Oh, combination of not getting US news, my friends only talking about it now, and the fact I'm a day ahead of the US as it is. Rotten week then.
I don't know if there's much to talk about after a terrorist incident except to remember the victims. It's one of those issues where it's always very sad to see that it still happens.
SubJeff on 23/5/2017 at 04:58
Really SD? Confirmed bomb? The BBC never says anything. It's like they want to keep us in the dark.
Gryzemuis on 23/5/2017 at 08:53
"Suspected terrorist attack".
Yup, someone brought a nail-bomb to a children's party by mistake. Too bad it went off. He didn't intend to. Probably an honest mistake. No way we can say if this was a terrorist attack or not.
Also no speculation who is responsible. So many different people and factions who have blown up innocent people with pressure-cookers with nailbombs inside them over the last years. We have absolutely no idea who did it. No idea at all.
hopper on 23/5/2017 at 09:22
What's the point of writing such crap, Gryz? You're better than this.
Gryzemuis on 23/5/2017 at 10:32
I don't know about the BBC, I don't watch their news very often. But in the Netherlands some media have a tendency to try and avoid calling things like they are. All the time. I'm tired of that. If you ever want to make progress, improve the world, you should start calling things what they are.
I'll give you an example. When the cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo were murdered, our media did their utmost best to not show a single cartoon from Charlie Hebdo that was about Islam. None. While that was the core of the issue. They all stood at the front yelling "je suis Charlie". But when it really matters, when it is about something as simple as "we will not let others tell us what we can laugh about", they bended their heads. In the wrong direction. Too careful. Too scared.
The biggest mistake is that it seems they do this against "populist sentiment". Don't feed the populists. But by being so obviously politically correct, so obviously trying to not take sides, trying to be impartial, they actually do take sides. Or make it very much look like they take sides. The wrong side. And the "simple plebs" does see this. And they will start trusting main-stream media less and less. By being so careful they do actually encourage the general public towards the "populists".
Last night, at 2:00 CET, the BBC was still not calling it a terrorist attack. While there were already reports mentioning a nail-bomb. Why the reluctance ? It irritated me. That's why I posted my post.
