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Transcripts For BBCNEWS BBC News 20170523



the youngest was saffie roussos, just eight years old. thousands of people gathered for a vigil in manchester city centre in memory of those who died. and this afternoon, the queen led a minute s silence at buckingham palace, along with senior members of the royal family. a very good evening. welcome to albert square. earlier, there was a vigil here. this time last night, emergency services were responding to an explosion. 21,000 people were at the manchester arena to see ariana grande. as they were leaving the arena in high spirits, the numbers turn on its head. a 22 year old manchester born man named salman abedi, formerly a manchester united fan, he has a manchester connections, it positions and that in the foyer and exploded a bomb. he did it among so many young people. today, there have been a lot of police around and a lot of friends it were going on around the arena. they are trained to get to grips with the investigation. they are trained to find more about who ....

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS The Papers 20170523



way. we do have a busy time coming up around the country this summer period. music festivals are about to start happening, wimbledon injuly, at the beginning ofjuly, will be another important security operation. there are many armed officers. and we will need them all. the metropolitan police and other forces have an increase in armed officers that they have been able to call upon the year or so, specially trained counterterrorism officers to trained counterterrorism officers to train alongside soldiers who can do things like ripping out of helicopters onto buildings. they are trained not just in helicopters onto buildings. they are trained notjust in standard police firearm techniques that military techniques as well, such as laying down suppressive fire so they can deal with a marauding attack when, potentially, many terrorists are large with firearms. they are newly trained in those sorts of techniques. i think the metropolitan police and the other police forces invo ....

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