Sadiq Patel and Renee Black travelled together to pay their respects and grieve for the victims of Monday's horrific attack
A MUSLIM man and an elderly Jewish woman were united in grief today as they prayed at a memorial to the victims of Monday's Manchester Arena bombing attack.
Sadiq Patel was seen comforting Renee Black, 93, as the pair sat together in the city's Albert Square to pay their respects to the 22 people killed in the horrific terror attack.
Holding back tears, Renee told reporters the pair had come to "pay our respects to the people that have passed away and to hope that they never have anything like this again".
She said: "No matter about the colour or creed or whatever you are, we're all the same people. We bleed just like everybody else."
Sadiq told reporters the pair had travelled from Blackburn, Lancs.
He said: "No words can express what we're going through, but one thing we do definitely know is we're in this together and we'll get through this together.
"We had to come here. At this moment in time, faith doesn't mean anything."
The poignant moment was captured on camera by journalists at the scene this afternoon.
Sharing a clip of the pair together, ITV reporter Daniel Hewitt wrote: "A beautiful moment in Manchester."
He said they were members of the Blackburn interfaith forum and had travelled to see the floral tributes which have flooded the square following yesterday's candlelit vigil.
It is the latest show of unity from Brits in the wake of Monday's horror attack, when terrorist Salman Abedi blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 including children.
Britain's threat level has been raised to critical - meaning an attack is imminent - for the first time since the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
Cops are hunting for the bomb maker and have carried out raids at addresses near Abedi's home in Fallowfield today, as it emerged more than a dozen known jihadis killed or caught in the past four years are from the same part of the northern city.
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Chris Parker, 33, cradled a dying woman and wrapped a bloodied child in merchandise T-shirts while Stephen Jones described in harrowing detail how he had to pull nails from a little girl’s face.
Mr Parker was in the foyer of the arena – where he regularly goes to beg for money as concerts kick out – when a huge blast ripped through the exiting crowd and left 22 people dead and 59 people injured.
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