Donald Trump condemns ‘evil losers’ behind Manchester attack

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned the “evil losers” behind a bomb attack at a pop concert in the British city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people.


“So many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers,” Trump said after meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the occupied West Bank.

“I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. They would think that’s a great name.”

There was a blast and then chaos, as young fans of US pop star Ariana Grande fled in panic and parents searched frantically for their children, after a suicide bomb ripped through foyer of the Manchester Arena, leaving 22 people dead.

Grande had just finished her sold-out gig, releasing giant pink balloons from the ceiling as part of the finale, when the bomb went off.

“We heard a loud explosion and we weren’t sure what it was at first. People were saying it was a balloon popping or a speaker had just overriding and busting,” Sebastian Diaz, a 19-year-old at the concert, told AFP.

“People started to push their way forward and we realised something wasn’t right. People around us were just screaming, crying.

“There were fathers carrying their little girls who were in tears. People were pushing down the stairs. It was just, it was chaos.”

“People were injured by being trampled as they tried to get out. It was absolute carnage,” Ryan Morrison, 19, told the Manchester Evening News.

“They were losing shoes, they were dropping phones,” Stephanie Hill told AFP, her teenage daughter Kennedy adding: “One girl fell over the seats.”

Stephanie added: “We ran, we picked up a young girl on our way who was hyperventilating saying she had lost her mum.

“We took her with us, tried to calm her down. We did find her mum.”