Manchester Arena inquiry: Transport Police ‘did not share critical info’

(BBC) British Transport Police failed to share vital details with other emergency services after the Manchester Arena attack, a senior officer said.

Assistant Chief Constable Sean O’Callaghan told the public inquiry into the atrocity how a declaration of a major incident was not passed on.

Neither were details of the scene following the bombing on 22 May [2017].

He said “a number of changes made have been put in place” to improve BTP’s emergency plans.

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.

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