Manchester attack: Trump condemns media leaks

US President Donald Trump has said leaks of the investigation into the Manchester Arena attack to the US media are “deeply troubling”.

They were a “grave threat to our national security”, he added, and he would get to the bottom of it.

His remarks come after US media published photos from the scene of Monday night’s explosion.

Salman Abedi blew himself up after a Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 adults and children and injuring 116.

Mr Trump, who is at a Nato summit in Brussels along with UK Prime Minister Theresa May, said: “These leaks have been going on for a long time.”

He pledged to ask the US Department of Justice to launch a review, and “if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted”.

“There is no relationship we cherish more than the special relationship between the US and the UK,” he added.

In a speech at the summit, Mr Trump said the attack in Manchester demonstrated the “depths of the evil we face with terrorism”.

“Innocent little girls and so many others were horribly murdered and badly injured whilst attending a concert,” he said.

“Beautiful lives with so much great potential, torn from their families for ever and ever. It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our civilisation.

“All people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists, and yes, losers, they are losers.

“Wherever they exist in our societies we must drive them out and never, ever let them back in.”