Manchester Arena inquiry: Bomb response shameful, says victim’s dad

(BBC) The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack has said that the response to the bombing was “shameful” and “inadequate.”

Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, was among 22 people killed in the 2017 bombing.

Her dad Andrew Roussos told the inquiry into the blast he had never heard “so many excuses.”

“That poor little girl hung in there for someone to come and help her. What she got was a bloody advertising board and untrained people,” he said.

Hundreds of people were also injured when bomber Salman Abedi detonated a homemade explosive at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May that year.

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