Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomb scene ‘not suitable’ for treating victims

(BBC) A paramedic who treated victims of the Manchester Arena bombing has told an inquiry it was “not suitable” to treat casualties at the blast scene.

Lea Vaughan was one of only three paramedics to enter the foyer area, where the device was detonated.

The inquiry heard they dealt with 26 of the most seriously injured people.

Ms Vaughan said it was thought best to take those who were hurt away from the area to a place of safety as quickly as possible.

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

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