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Manchester attack: BCCI security incharge leaves for England to ensure team safety ahead of Champions Trophy

MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sent its security incharge to England amid concerns over team safety in the upcoming Champions Trophy following the Manchester bomb attack.

“Neeraj Kumar, security incharge and consultant of BCCI’s anti-corruption unit, left for England on Tuesday,” said CK Khanna, acting president of the Indian cricket board.

“Kumar was anyhow supposed to travel with the team but had to go early after the attack,” he added.

“He will definitely go to the venues where India is scheduled to play and assess the security,” the official added.

A suicide bomb attack rocked Manchester on Monday, killing 22 people at the end of a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.