(BBC) The Manchester Arena inquiry has published a catalogue of failings and mistakes by the emergency services following the terror attack in 2017.
Chairman Sir John Saunders highlighted a number of failures of the emergency response to the suicide bombing and said avoidable mistakes had been made.
Here are some of the key failings.
1. No-one declared a major incident
Sir John said the police inspector in initial command of the Manchester Arena bombing response “quickly became overburdened by the number of tasks he had to undertake” and it led to a “direct impact on the effectiveness” of the response.
