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Police hunt for suitcase used by Manchester attacker Salman Abedi

Police have released an image of Manchester bomb suspect Salman Abedi carrying a blue suitcase as they try to trace his movements.

The CCTV still picture was taken in Manchester city centre on the day of the attack last Monday.

Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit said: "We continue to track the final movements of Salman Abedi and are particularly interested in his whereabouts between 18 and 22 May 2017.

"Today, we are releasing an image of Abedi carrying a distinctive blue suitcase and an image of a replica of the case.

"We know he visited the Wilmslow Road area of Manchester and was also seen in Manchester city centre with the blue suitcase.

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"If you have any details about the suitcase we need you to get in touch and let us know.

"This is a different item than the one he used in the attack.

"We have no reason to believe the case and its contents contain anything dangerous, but would ask people to be cautious."

It came as it emerged that police with dogs have been searching a house that has been cordoned off in the Rusholme area of south Manchester.

A resident said that four Malaysian students live at the property, which is in the city's famous Curry Mile area.

A major search linked to the Manchester terror attack is also under way at a landfill site on the outskirts of Bury, Greater Manchester.

A large number of police officers dressed in white suits have been seen searching the industrial premises at Pilsworth.

Greater Manchester Police tweeted: "Officers investigating the attack on the Manchester Arena are searching a site in Pilsworth, Bury. The search is currently on-going."

Investigators have been at Viridor Waste Management, close to the M66 motorway, "for around three days", according to one resident.

It comes as police continue their search of a flat in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, that was raided earlier.

The force said a 23-year-old man was arrested in the coastal town by officers investigating last Monday's suicide bombing.

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The hairdresser of a man who lives at the flat, above a parade of shops in Brunswick Road, said he was training to be a pilot.

Violet Mainda said: "He was a normal bloke, very jovial.

"I think he had finished, or was still training, to be a pilot.

"He told me, but I can't quite remember what he said, he was from Libya."

It brings the number of people in custody in connection with suicide bombing of Manchester Arena to 14.

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Officers also raided addresses in Whalley Range, south Manchester, and Chester.

Salman Abedi killed 22 people, seven of them children, and injured more than 100, minutes after the end of a concert by Disney star Ariana Grande.

NHS England said 50 people are still being treated across eight hospitals, including 17 patients in critical care.

Meanwhile, the Home Secretary has told Sky News an internal MI5 investigation looking into possible intelligence failings over the Manchester bomber is the "right first step".

The Security Service has launched an urgent inquiry into how it missed the danger posed by attacker Salman Abedi.

The move comes amid claims he was repeatedly reported to authorities by teachers and religious leaders concerned that he might become a terrorist.