Manchester Arena inquiry: Families call for ‘clear-sighted’ reports

(BBC) Families of those killed in the Manchester Arena attack have called on the inquiry into the atrocity to be “clear-sighted and brave.”

A public inquiry into the bombing by Salman Abedi in 2017 began in September 2020 and finished earlier.

It has heard evidence from 267 witnesses.

Solicitor Kim Harrison, who represents 12 of the victims’ families, said there had been a “catalogue of organisational failings at every turn.”

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds injured when Abedi detonated a homemade bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.

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