Police have so far arrested 8 persons in the pop concert blast case.

A reported suspicious package in Manchester. which the British army bomb disposal experts investigated, has been deemed safe, police said on Thursday, adding that a cordon was removed.

“There was a cordon in Hulme, not Trafford as previously suggested, relating to a possible suspicious package,” the Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. “This has now been deemed safe and the cordon has been removed.”

Earlier, a bomb disposal team arrived at a college in Trafford after police responded to a call there, the police said in a statement on Twitter. "Police are responding to a call at a college in Trafford. The following roads are currently closed - Mancunian Way, Limby street and Jackson Street. Officers are in attendance and we are currently assessing the situation," The Greater Manchester Police reported on Twitter.



On Thursday, the police arrested two more persons and were searching a new site in Manchester which is suspected of links to the bombing that killed 22 people at a pop concert. The latest arrests take the total number of men in custody for the terror attack to eight. All the previous arrests were made in and around Manchester where the suicide bombing took place on Monday night.

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Police also continued to investigate the suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, and his suspected links to a wider extremist “network“.

His father, Ramadan Abedi, and brother, Hashim, have also been arrested in Libya. Another brother, 23-year-old Ismail, was arrested on Tuesday in Manchester. The anti-terror force that took Hashim into custody in Libya said the teenager had confessed that both him and his brother, Salman, were members of the Islamic State (IS) group and that he “knew all the details” of the Manchester attack plot.