Emergency crews carry out terror attack response drills

(BBC) Emergency services have taken part in joint training exercises to test its response to a terror attack or mass-casualty incidents.

It comes after a public inquiry found a catalogue of failings by the emergency response to the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

Greater Manchester’s fire, police and ambulance services took part in mock events over the last month.

The ambulance service said it meant they were “better prepared.”

Twenty-two people died and hundreds more were injured when Salman Abedi detonated a device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the arena on 22 May 2017.

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