(BBC) There was no indication the Manchester Arena bomber held extremist views and was planning a terrorist attack, his friend has told an inquiry.
Alzoubare Mohammed said Salman Abedi “distanced himself” from friends and “would probably go to the mosque more often” in the years before the attack.
However, he told the Manchester Arena inquiry Abedi said nothing that made him think he was becoming an extremist.
Abedi’s attack on the venue in 2017 had left his friends “in shock,” he added.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Abedi detonated a homemade explosive at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
