Greater Manchester Police say eight arrests made in relation to the terrorist attack in Manchester on Monday are \u201csignificant\u201d and that recent raids have revealed items \u201cvery important\u201d to the investigation.<\/b>
\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins says the investigation continues to be \u201cvery fast moving\u201d with a \u201csignificant amount of activity occurring overnight and this morning.\u201d
He says there are eight men currently in custody. A woman arrested on Wednesday has been released without charge. Hopkins says officers are carrying out a number of searches relating to those who have been arrested.
\u201cI want to reassure people that the arrests we have made are significant and initial searches of premises have revealed items that we believe are very important to the investigation.
\u201cThese searches will take several days to complete.\u201d
Hopkins says the incident in Hulme, where army bomb disposal units were dispatched to attend to a \u201csuspicious package\u201d on Thursday morning, \u201cis not necessarily related to the wider [Manchester terrorism] investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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