-By Warner Todd Huston
In the aftermath of the terrible bombing of children in Manchester, England, the pop singer who they came to see has offered to pay for the funerals of the victims, a report says.
Singer Ariana Grande immediately suspended her concert tour after the Islamic terror attack on her audience and now she is going one step farther by offering to pay for the funerals of the 22 victims, the Daily Mail reports.
The offer was related via a fan site dedicated to the singer.
An account dedicated to the pop superstar claims that the devastated singer has pledged to help the families of the 22 people who lost their lives in the bombing of Manchester Arena following her concert.
The site, called Ariana Updates!, shared a post saying: ‘News on Ariana: Ariana has reached out to the families who’s loves ones died last night….she is gonna pay for the funerals!’
Immediately following the attack the singer said she was “broken” by the bombing.
So far, nine of the 22 victims have been publicly named including an eight-year-old girl named Saffie Roussos.
The attack was carried out by British-born Salman Abedi using a homemade bomb filled with nails and bolts. The attack occurred just inside the entrance to Manchester Arena as the concert goers were leaving the venue. Most of those caught in the bombing where the children who came to see the Grande concert.
The drummer for Ariana Grande’s band said that they are all in anguish over the attack.
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We finished the show and were walking back to our dressing rooms and BOOM!!!!… https://t.co/1HAgfhrO1G
— Aaron Spears (@aaronspears) May 23, 2017
Musician Aaron Spears said that the bombing will remain a “painful memory” that will live with them all forever.
The drummer related his experience on Instagram.
Aaron began of the chilling event: ‘We finished the show and we were walking back to our dressing rooms and BOOM!!!’
Explaining their confusion, he continued: ‘We could hear people we had no idea what it was… There was all kinds of speculation as to what was going on…
‘Like 5 minutes after getting to the room, security came in and informed us that we had to evacuate the building immediately.
‘It was then that we realized this was serious. Initially we thought that the sound was all kinds of things but it didn’t hit that this was a bomb until we were evacuated and they told us exactly what was going on.’
“It’s so heartbreaking because so many little ones attend our shows… I just keep thinking about them,” Spears added.
“I’m extremely thankful that no one on the touring crew was physically hurt but this painful memory will live with us all forever,’ he concluded. ‘I’m still just in disbelief… It’s so surreal…,” the drummer concluded.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as Constitution.com, CanadaFreePress.com, BizPac Review, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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