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2017 Manchester Arena bombing

2017 terrorist attack in the United Kingdom
Event suicide_bombing Q30015850
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Summary

2017 Manchester Arena bombing is a suicide bombing[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of suicide bombing entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,000 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Manchester[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: mass murder[5]
  • Location: Manchester Arena[6], Manchester[7], England[8]
  • Part of: terrorism in the United Kingdom[9], Islamic terrorism in Europe[10]
  • Commons category: May 2017 Manchester attack[11]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[12]
  • Armament: bomb[13]
  • Target: audience[14]
  • Point in time: May 22, 2017[15]
  • Has cause: Islamic extremism[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Manchester Arena bombing[17]
  • Number of deaths: 23[18]
  • Number of injured: 120[19]
  • Has effect: reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing[20]
  • Number of perpetrators: 1[21]
  • Historic county: Lancashire[22]
  • Perpetrator: Salman Abedi[23]

Why It Matters

2017 Manchester Arena bombing has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

England Manchester United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . bbc.com. Retrieved . bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . manchestereveningnews.co.uk. Retrieved . manchestereveningnews.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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