(BBC) Ambulance staff arriving to help after the Manchester Arena bomb prioritised treatment over taking casualties to hospital, the attack inquiry has heard.
The Manchester Arena inquiry was told 14 people were not put on ambulances until three hours after the attack.
Ambulance manager James Birchenough, who arrived 40 minutes after the blast, said there were “patients everywhere.”
He agreed three hours sounded like “a very long time” but said there had been good reasons for any delays.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device in the venue’s City Room foyer at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017, one minute after an Ariana Grande concert ended.
