Manchester Arena inquiry: Officer ‘frustrated’ by lack of paramedics

(BBC) A police officer who was among the first on the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing said he was left feeling “frustrated” at the lack of paramedics.

Sgt Matthew Martin, from British Transport Police, told the inquiry into the 2017 attack how he gave first aid to some of the casualties.

The inquiry has previously heard how only one paramedic entered the scene in the first 40 minutes after the bomb.

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the attack.

Sgt Martin told the inquiry he helped carry casualties away from the bomb scene using makeshift stretchers including crowd control barriers and advertising hoardings.

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