Manchester Arena inquiry: Paramedic ‘struggled to cope’

(BBC) A paramedic who helped those injured in the Manchester Arena bombing has told the inquiry into the attack about how she struggled to cope afterwards.

Lea Vaughan was one of three paramedics who entered the City Room, where the bomb exploded, on 22 May 2017.

She told the Manchester Arena inquiry she was adequately trained for what had happened on the night but “not so much” for the aftermath.

She said she did not believe “any sort of training can prepare you for that.”

The inquiry heard she was medically retired from North West Ambulance Service in December 2020.

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