A teenage couple in love, dreaming of traveling the world together.

An off-duty police officer, taking a break from the stresses of fighting organized crime to enjoy a concert with her husband and two children.

A Polish couple, waiting to pick up their children from a concert and unaware it would be their last moments of parental duty.

On Thursday, the grim task of confirming those who had died in the Manchester attack appeared to be coming to an end.

The police said that they were confident they had identified all 22 people who died in the attack — but they added that they would not reveal all of the names until post-mortems were concluded, which could take several more days.

Families and friends have confirmed the deaths of loved ones to the police or to schools or on social media. The process helped bring a small measure of closure after Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan descent, set off a crude bomb after a performance by the pop singer Ariana Grande on Monday night. It was the worst terrorist attack on British soil since 2005.