Lawmakers in the British Parliament have shown in a report that UK security services missed potential opportunities to prevent a deadly bombing in May 2017 in Manchester in northern England.
The parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said in a report on Thursday that the MI5, Britain’s main domestic intelligence service, failed to spot and prevent the attack on a concert in Manchester Arena which killed 22 people.
The report said the flaws over monitoring and travel restrictions showed that authorities had failed to learn from previous attacks.
“While it is impossible to say whether these would have prevented the devastating attack on May 22, we have concluded that, as a result of the failings, potential opportunities to prevent it were missed” said ISC chairman Dominic Grieve.
The report said that MI5 committed a number of failures about detecting Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old Briton who carried out the attack at the…