MEET THE TERRORIST HOUSEHOOD-Manchester

Questions have been asked about how the Manchester bomber slipped through the net as he was
reported to security officials several times by people worried about extremism. Salman Abedi's father Ramadan and his younger brother Hashem were being held after they were arrested by counter-terror police, as it emerged that Hashem was said to have known about his brother's murderous plans for more than a month. His father was a revolutionary fighter who had publicly voiced support for an Al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria. A third relative, Abedi's older brother Ismail, was arrested in Manchester. It is not known what his involvement, if any, was. It brings to light an extraordinary picture of the family of Abedi, who killed 22 people and injured at least 119 more when he detonated a bomb on Monday night as children were piling out of the venue having watched Ariana Grande. Pictured left, bomber Salman Abedi, centre his brother Hashem, and right, his father Ramadan.

The family of the Manchester suicide bomber have links to terror networks around the world as it emerged the killer was in a German hotbed of Islamic extremists four days before the attack, it was revealed last night.

Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and injured at least 119, visited Dusseldorf days before he blew himself up at Manchester Arena - an atrocity possibly connected to the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, detectives have said.

One theory is Abedi may have been part of a larger cell that included Mohamed Abrini, the 'Man in the Hat', with connections to the mass murders in Paris and Brussels. Abrini is known to have visited Manchester in 2015.

German security sources said efforts have been redoubled to find if Abedi had accomplices in the country, received any explosives training or had been radicalised by local preachers.

Abedi flew to and from the city on the Rhine directly from Manchester.

Dusseldorf is in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia where Berlin Christmas market killer Anis Amri, 24, worshipped at Jihadist mosques shortly before he ploughed a stolen lorry into a crowd, killing 11 and wounding dozens more.

Like Abedi, Amri had links with Libya having been born there and was thought to have had contact with people in training camps in the country before his killing spree, raising suspicions of a potential link between the two terrorists.

Abedi's father Ramadan and younger brother Hashem were in custody in Libya last night after being arrested by counter-terror police a day after elder brother Ismail, 23, was detained in Manchester. Detectives said Hashem had links to ISIS and was planning to carry out a terror attack in Tripoli.