Trainee pilot arrested in connection with Manchester attack

LONDON: A Libya-born ' trainee pilot' was today arrested in the UK, bringing the total number of people in custody in relation to the Manchester terror attack to 14.

According to the police, the 23-year-old was arrested at a property in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, more than 400-km from the Manchester Arena, where Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb a week ago killing 22 people.

The Sussex arrest early today brings the number of people in custody in relation to the May 22 attack to 14.

The National Health Service said 54 people injured in the attack were still being treated in 8 hospitals with 19 receiving critical care.

A total of 116 people had required hospital care in the wake of the massacre.