(BBC) Police “abjectly failed” to co-ordinate the emergency response on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry has heard.
Families of those killed said Greater Manchester Police (GMP) had tried “to blame others” for its mistakes.
The public inquiry into the bombing is hearing final legal arguments about how the emergency services reacted.
Pete Weatherby QC, who represents seven of the bereaved families, told the hearing there was a “command vacuum.”
“There was no organised multi-agency working,” he said.
“The [Greater Manchester] Fire and Rescue Service didn’t turn up and there was little or no paramedic care in the City Room [where the bomb exploded] for the whole of the early stages. GMP were not wholly responsible for the emergency response failures but they were at the centre.”
