Manchester Arena inquiry adjourns for secret hearings

(BBC) The Manchester Arena bombing inquiry has been adjourned for three weeks of secret hearings.

Closed hearings, where only the inquiry chairman, legal team and Home Office lawyers will be present, will start next week at an undisclosed location.

Bereaved families, their lawyers and the press and public will be excluded on national security grounds.

Families of the 22 people murdered have been told as much information as possible will be released to them.

The hearings will cover whether the security services and counter-terrorism police could have prevented Salman Abedi from detonating a bomb in 2017.

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