Manchester Arena inquiry: Ex-military police officer hailed ‘a hero’

(BBC) A former military police officer who helped the victims of the Manchester Arena attack was a “hero,” the inquiry into the bombing has heard.

The Manchester Arena inquiry was told Darron Coster, who was picking up his son, used his Royal Military Police training to assist in the “carnage.”

He said the first thing he did was shut the doors to the blast scene after thinking “nobody needs to see that.”

Inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said he had done an “amazing job.”

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds of others injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.

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