Manchester Arena inquiry: Paramedics ‘were not struggling’ after attack

June 7, 2021   

(BBC) A specialist paramedic who treated people injured in the Manchester Arena attack has told an inquiry that more medics “would have helped.”

Chris Hargreaves was one of three North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) paramedics to go into the foyer after Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in 2017.

He said they were “coping OK” but more reinforcements would have helped.

However, the paramedic said he did not “want to make it sound like we were struggling there.”

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Abedi detonated a homemade device as crowds left an Ariana Grande concert at the venue just after 22:30 BST on 22 May 2017.

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