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Manchester attack: Off-duty police officer among 22 victims killed in concert bombing as husband left critically injured

Manchester attack: Off-duty police officer among 22 victims killed in concert bombing as husband left critically injured

An off-duty policewoman was killed in the Manchester suicide bomb attack, police have confirmed.

The officer was at Manchester Arena with her husband and their two children when Salman Abedi detonated a device which killed her along with 21 other people.

Her husband is critically ill in hospital and their children were both injured, according to reports.

The woman's identity has not yet been revealed but police said all of the victims have been accounted for.

In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Greater Manchester Police confirmed that an off-duty police officer was killed.

Former London student Martyn Hett, 29, became the latest victim of the suicide bombing to be named among the 22 people murdered.

In total, 12 of the victims have so far been named by friends, family and officials, with an 8-year-old girl among those killed.

They died when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated his explosives at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena on Monday night.

​Georgina Callander, 18, was one of the first victims to be named, after dying in hospital shortly after the attack.

The youngest victim is eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos, from Lancashire, who had been at the concert with her mother and sister when she was killed in the blast.

Other people named among the dead are friends Alison Howe, 45, and Lisa Lees, 43, Kelly Brewster, 32, from Sheffield, 26-year-old John Atkinson from Bury, Polish couple Angelika and Marcin Klis, receptionist Jane Tweddle-Taylor and 15-year-old Olivia Campbell.

Security across the country has been stepped up following the attack after Prime Minister Theresa May raised the UK's terror threat level to critical.

She said another attack could be "imminent".

British Army officers have been sent out on patrol at Downing Street and outside Westminster, while armed police officers are stationed across the capital.