Emotional footage shows youngsters belting out the lyrics to ‘One Last Time’ along with US popstar Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena in the minutes before the horror blast.
Heartbreaking footage shows the moment thousands of youngster sang ‘One Last Time’ with Ariana Grande – just moments before a suicide bomb attack killed 22 and left hundreds more injured.
Emotional footage shows youngsters belting out the lyrics to ‘One Last Time’ at Manchester Arena in the minutes before the horror blast.
As mobile phone lights create a stunning backdrop across the crowd, they can be heard singing: ‘So one last time, I need to be the one who takes you home. One more time, I promise after that, I’ll let you go.’
Nothing could have prepared them for what was to happen just moments later as thousands of fans streamed out of the Manchester Arena.
Traumatised witnesses told how nuts and bolts tore into young music fans when the bomb was detonated in the foyer area after the concert ended.
Anushka Moore, 28, who filmed the touching footage, told the Manchester Evening News: ‘It’s chilling to see that back and know what was about to happen. I get really choked up.
‘When you listen, those are children’s voices singing that song. That would have been the last time many would have been able to sing it. It’s really sad.’
Anushka escaped without injury but 22 people were killed in the bombing with more than a dozen still missing following what is Britain’s worst terror attack since the 7/7 bombings.
Family members are searching ‘high and low’ across Manchester for their relatives with three of the victims named so far.
Eight-year-old schoolgirl Saffie Rose Roussos was the youngest with sixth form student Georgina Callander, 18, and ‘true gentleman’ John Atkinson, 26, also killed in the explosion.
The bomber – who was today named as 22-year-old Salman Abedi – was known to authorities.
He died at the scene and police carried out a controlled explosion at what is believed to be his home during raids around the city today.
Abedi is understood to have been born in Britain but is from a Libyan family. A school friend told MailOnline had grown a beard when he last saw him and neighbours claimed he had been ‘acting strangely’ recently.
Police raided a house where Abedi’s brother lived and arrested a 23-year-old man. Police and security services are trying to work out if the suicide bomber was part of a cell.
Security sources have told MailOnline that initial analysis of the ‘sophisticated’ device suggests it was made by an expert.
