(BBC) About 20,000 participants in the Great Manchester Run held a minute’s applause for the victims of the Manchester Arena attack on its fifth anniversary.
Twenty-two people died when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
Survivor Freya Lewis started the race before taking part in memory of her best friend, who died in the attack.
The 19-year-old, who learned to walk again following her injuries, said she was “tired but happy” after the run.
Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham, who also took part, described the day as “poignant.”
He said the attack “could have divided us but it didn’t, it did the opposite — it brought us together.”
