Actor Tom Hardy has established a fundraising campaign and is encouraging others to donate to those affected by the terrorist bombing at a pop music concert in Manchester, U.K. Monday night.
The London-born star started an online fundraising campaign via JustGiving on Tuesday aimed at raising funds for the British Red Cross Society.
“What happened last night at the AG concert in Manchester was a tragedy; families and children attacked and murdered in a place where they should be safe and enjoying a concert. It is an inconceivable atrocity,” the Mad Max star wrote on the fundraising website. “There is no bringing back those who have been lost, pointlessly, in such a cowardly and brutal fashion. I am truly saddened by what I have witnessed and there is no doubt that terrorism is an evil thing.”
The suicide bombing attack, carried out by Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British citizen of Libyan origin, claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left dozens more injured, many of them young children.
Abedi reportedly had ties to the Islamic State, the radical Islamic group that has taken credit for the deadly attack.
British authorities have arrested at least five suspects in connection with the deadly bombing.
Hardy says he hopes his fundraising campaign can be “a gesture of goodwill and love to help in some small way towards repairing some if any of the damage done in the wake of last night’s events.”
The 39-year-old A-lister described the attack as a “cruel cowardly and barbaric, meaningless act of violence.”
“Terrorism is abhorrent. The killing of innocent families and children unacceptable,” he wrote. “And it is with those, the innocent victims and the witnesses of this atrocity that my heartfelt concern and deepest sympathy lies. Please help however you can.”
As of Wednesday, Hardy had reached 75 percent of his £15,000 fundraising goal.
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