Injured survivors from Manchester bombing suing MI5
The injured survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing are suing MI5, lawyers have said.
Sky News
The Security Service, also known as MI5, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI). MI5 is directed by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and the service is bound by the Security Service Act 1989. The service is directed to protect British parliamentary democracy and economic interests and to counter terrorism and espionage within the United Kingdom (UK).
The injured survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing are suing MI5, lawyers have said.
A claim on behalf of more than 250 survivors of the 2017 blast has been lodged, lawyers confirm.