Manchester Arena inquiry: Ambulance boss defends time it took to treat the injured

(BBC) An ambulance manager has defended the time it took to treat casualties of the Manchester Arena terror attack.

Only three paramedics went into the bomb site and the badly injured were still being carried out on makeshift stretchers an hour after the blast.

North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) tactical adviser Jonathan Butler told the public inquiry he regarded the response to be quite quick.

Some critically ill casualties waited up to three hours to get to hospital.

Twenty-two people died and hundreds more were injured when a suicide bomber detonated a device in the venue’s City Room foyer at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.

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