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We want to inform you that the OU students and faculty traveling with the Gaylord College British Media Study Abroad program in London are safe following last night's attack at the Manchester Arena. The group of 13 students and three faculty are together and accounted for. We are in communication with the group and monitoring the situation closely. A planned visit to the BBC in Manchester on May 30 has been cancelled. The group is scheduled to return to Norman on June 3.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed from OU Daily coverage; the university confirmed the 13-student, 3-faculty headcount and the BBC Manchester visit cancellation, but the exact notification wording was not published verbatim.
The Gaylord College British Media Studies program visits media outlets in London, Manchester, Cambridge, Liverpool, Bath, Bristol, and Cardiff each summer; the group was in London, not Manchester, on the night of the attack.
Manchester Arena bombing on May 22, 2017 killed 22 people and injured 1,017 when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device in the arena foyer after an Ariana Grande concert.