UPDATE: Armed officers raid the address of Manchester bombing suspect

Elsmore Road, where Abedi was registered as living, became the centre of the investigation into Monday's outrage as detectives hunted those thought to be behind the blast.

The suspect was named by US security services in Washington, as those who live on the red-bricked semi-detached street said they know little about those who reside at the address.

A couple living opposite the house on Elsmore Road said was they were sure no-one was arrested and that police found the house empty.

Alan and Frances Kinsey filmed the dramatic police raid on the semi-detached property in their quiet street The footage shows a line of more than 20 officers, all armed, approaching the house.

All the officers were wearing grey, specialist firearms uniforms with helmets and goggles.

Vehicle transporter Mr Kinsey, 52, said the officers put a black strip down the door, retreated and then 60 to 90 seconds later there was a loud explosion.

He said: "Armed police came down. There must have been 30 and 40 of them.

"Some were dressed in khaki and some of them were in police uniforms. All armed. A couple of them had riot shields."

Mr Kinsey said dogs were taken into the house with the armed officers but he was adamant no-one was brought out.

He said: "They didn't find anybody in the house at the time.

"We kept watching and they didn't bring anybody out."

Asked about other reports of an arrest in the street, he said: "That must have been somewhere else because there wasn't anybody brought out."

Greater Manchester Police said a controlled explosion was carried out at the Fallowfield address at around lunchtime on Tuesday.

It came as a 23-year-old man was also arrested by plain-clothed police officers on Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, over the deadly bombing.

As armed officers carried out the Elsmore Road swoop, equipped with guns and body armour, those who live there described the scene.

Simon Turner, 46, who has lived in the neighbourhood all of his life, said he was standing in the street at around 12pm when police descended.

He told the Press Association: "It was so quick, these cars just pulled up and all these police with guns, dogs, jumped out of the car and said to us 'get in the house now'."

He said the police surrounded the property in question, that officers "did something" and said "the next thing the door blew off the house".

"It was like something from a movie scene, it was unbelievable really," he added, while also saying there was "loads of noise" when police stormed the property.

Mr Turner said "two young lads" live at the house in question, but that he knows very little about them, and said nothing like the incident has ever happened before.

He said he has not seen anyone arrested, but that officers in white forensics suits have been going in and out of the property.

Another man, who has lived on the road for more than 20 years, said: "It was loud - we could see the windows shaking, you can hear it from anywhere in the area because I could see many people rushing out of their doors to see what happened."

Greater Manchester Police said they also executed a search warrant at a property in Whalley Range, a mile from the other address.

Officers stood guard outside the entrance of the four-storey building while more uniformed police and detectives in suits could be seen entering the property, with their activity centred on a flat inside.

Mr Kinsey said he has lived in the street for 17 years and the house opposite him has had a succession of people living in it.

He said an Asian man in his mid-20s appeared to have been living in the semi by himself for the last nine months, but he had many visitors.

He said the man lived with another man before this time and possible older people before that.

Mr Kinsey said: "At different times there were a lot of different people living there.

"It was a young lad over the last 12 months.

"I have been here for 17 years and it's always been different families moving in and out.

"And I think the young lad's been there the longest - about 14 months or so."

Mr Kinsey said he had very little contact with the man in the house. He said his only interaction was when he complained about a car being badly parked and the young man gave him the middle finger sign.

He said the only other times when the house became known in the street was on a couple of occasions when he flew a flag from an upstairs window.

He said he thought it was a Palestinian flag but could be wrong.

He said the man was tall and skinny and mainly wore traditional Islamic white clothes.

Mr Kinsey said one particular man was a frequent visitor, picking up the man in a Toyota Yaris.

He said he thought the man worked in a takeaway due to the odd hours he kept.

Care support worker Mrs Kinsey, 48, said the house shook with the explosion and even her deaf dog jumped in the air.

"It's just the shock. They did this to children," she said.