More than 300 survivors from the Manchester Arena bombing during an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 had their legal case against Britain's domestic intelligence agency, MI5, dismissed.
Earlier this week, a tribunal in the United Kingdom rejected a legal claim made by representatives of the survivors that said MI5 failed to properly address intelligence the agency received that helped orchestrate the attack. According to the tribunal's ruling, the survivors waited too long to file their claim.
The bombing was carried out in May 2017 by Salman Abedi, a suicide bomber, as fans were leaving the venue. 22 people were killed in the attack, including children, and more than 100 other people were injured. An official investigation ran last year found MI5 did not respond to critical intelligence that could have stopped the attack that's considered the deadliest radical attack in the United Kingdom.
MI5 labeled Abedi a subject of interest in 2014 but removed him from the list as they found him to be a low-risk threat. The investigation also found that an MI5 officer had information that Abedi could be a national security threat but failed to give the news to their team on time.
"Our clients have had to endure continued delays but have done so with great patience and understanding, in the hope that transparency and justice would ultimately be achieved," three law firms representing the survivors said in a joint statement.
