UK launches review after Manchester bombing plotter attacks prison guards

LONDON: The UK´s justice ministry launched a review on Sunday after the jailed plotter of the deadly 2017 Manchester bombing was accused of throwing hot oil over prison guards and attacking them with makeshift weapons.

Hashem Abedi -- who is serving a life sentence over the bombing that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert -- threw the cooking oil over three officers on Saturday before stabbing them with “home-made weapons,” according to the Prison Officers´ Association trade union.

Two of the officers at the prison near Durham, northern England, remain in hospital with serious injuries, while a third has been discharged, police said.