Fresh Terror Attack Feared Imminent; May Orders 5K Troops Onto Streets

Troops are to be deployed onto Britain’s streets amid fears a further terror attack ‘may be imminent’, the Prime Minister has announced.

Theresa May revealed the move this evening, less than 24 hours after the bomb attack at a teen concert in Manchester, which left 22 dead and 59 injured.

The Prime Minister confirmed the identity of the Manchester suicide bomber as 22-year-old Salman Abedi, a Mancunian of Libyan descent.

But intelligence agencies fear he may not have acted alone – leaving open the possibility of an active Islamist terror cell on the loose.

Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre last night raised the terror threat level to ‘critical’, its highest level.

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