Four-time African footballer of the year, Yaya Toure and his agent Dimitri Seluk have agreed to donate £50,000 each to those affected by the suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena on Monday night.
Twenty-two people lost their lives and a further 119 were injured in the atrocious attack with eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, 18-year-old Georgina Callander and 26-year-old John Atkinson among those killed.
A further 59 were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the bomber - named on Tuesday as 22-year-old Salman Abedi - entered the foyer and activated an improvised explosive device.
According to the Manchester City Midfielder's agent, Seluk said 'Yaya and I want to help. We talked this morning about what happened and he asked me what he thought we could do.
'We have agreed to donate £50,000 each to help the victims of this terrible crime. It doesn't matter whether the victims are from Manchester or not.
'Yaya is from Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), I am Russian. It doesn't matter. Today is a chance for those of us in football to help out.'
Toure, along with a host of other football stars from both United and City, tweeted: 'Such terrible news in Manchester. Thoughts and prayers with those affected.
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