available right now, but if you could just tell us in on the latest of what s happened. that s right. greater manchester police have announced in the last hour that they have made two arrests. these are two teenagers who have been arrested in south manchester as part of this investigation following the incident over the weekend. now incident over the weekend. now in terms of the teenagers, the police are not revealing their genders, so we don t know whether they are male or female or their ages or why they have been arrested or indeed their connection to the incidents, but what we do know is that they are currently being interviewed by counterterrorism police in manchester and the police in manchester and the police in manchester have issued a statement saying that forces will remain in the region of manchester and are liaising with local communities to put in place any measure us to put in place any measure us to provide further reassurance to provide further reassurance to local comm
as soon as it became known that akram was a british citizen who entered the united states two weeks ago, the investigation became global. counterterrorism police in manchester assisting us authorities now questioning two teenagers arrested in the city last night. sophie long, bbc news, dallas. let s get more on the arrests of those two teenagers in manchester we can talk to our news reporter greg mckenzie. bring us up to date on the arrests. bring us up-to-date on the arrests. ., ., , arrests. the two teenagers were arrested in arrests. the two teenagers were arrested in south arrests. the two teenagers were arrested in south manchester i arrested in south manchester yesterday evening. the police have not revealed their ages. their names or even their genders. we still do not know what connection, if any, they have with the 44 year old akram who was shot dead after that ten hours siege in dallas texas. . ten hours siege in dallas texas. . ., ., , ten hours siege in dallas texas
teenagers, the police are not revealing their genders, so we don t know if they are male or female, ortheirages, orwhy they have been arrested, or indeed the connection to the incident, but what we do know is that they are currently being interviewed by counterterrorism police in manchester, and the police in manchester, and the police in manchester have issued a statement saying that forces will remain in the region of manchester and are liaising with local communities to put in place any measures to provide further reassurance to local communities. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we will get the latest from tonga as a new zealand air force plane flies to the island to assess the damage caused by saturday s volcanic eruption on samoa.