(BBC) Suicide bomber Salman Abedi was smiling as he walked to his death and murdered 22 bystanders by detonating his home-made bomb, a public inquiry has heard.
Abedi, 22, was on his mobile phone as he made his “final walk” after waiting for crowds to emerge at the end of a concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.
Seconds later he detonated his device packed with 3,000 nuts and bolts.
Showsec security guard Mohammed Agha told the inquiry he was not initially suspicious of Abedi.
Mr Agha had seen Abedi outside the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, dressed in black and carrying a big, bulky rucksack, three times earlier that night, but he did not think him suspicious until minutes before the bombing when he agreed it “crossed his mind” Abedi might be a suicide bomber.
