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Yaya Toure and agent Dimitri Seluk donate £100,000 to family of victims of Manchester terror attack

MANCHESTER CITY star Yaya Toure and his agent are to donate £100,000 to the families of victims of the Manchester terror attack.

Toure and Dimitri Seluk are giving £50,000 each after a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 59 more at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night.

 Yaya Toure and his agent have donated £100,000 to the families of victims of the Manchester terror attack
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Yaya Toure and his agent have donated £100,000 to the families of victims of the Manchester terror attackCredit: Getty Images

The Ivorian midfielder, 34, took to social media immediately after news began filtering through of the horrendous attack.


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He wrote: "Such terrible news in Manchester.

"Thoughts and prayers with all those affected."

Seluk later told Sky Sports News: "The news an eight-year-old girl went to see her favourite singer and didn't return home is too much to bear.

 Dimitri Seluk said he and the midfielder couldn't bear the news
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Dimitri Seluk said he and the midfielder couldn't bear the newsCredit: Facebook - Dimitri Seluk

"Yaya and I want to help.

"We talked this morning about what happened and he asked me what he thought we could do."

Messages and tributes flooded in from across football for the victims caught in the attack.

Manchester United and Manchester City players led tributes, while the likes of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo also posted tributes.

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