(BBC) A counter-terrorism training drill a year before the Manchester Arena bomb was “quite a disaster,” the head of the inquiry into the attack has suggested.
The inquiry into the May 2017 bombing heard a mock terrorist attack highlighted major communication issues between emergency services.
Communication “did not run smoothly” in the drill, a senior fire officer said.
Twenty-two people died in the terror attack by Salman Abedi at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.
Giving evidence to the public inquiry, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) station manager Michael Lawlor said 2016’s Exercise Winchester Accord “did not run smoothly from the perspective of GMFRS and [North West Ambulance Service] NWAS.”
