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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Pilling

Inquiry criticises failures of emergency services on night of Manchester bombing

One of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena suicide bombing would probably have survived but for inadequacies in the emergency response.

Care worker John Atkinson, 28, was six metres away when the explosion went off in the City Room foyer of the venue at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on the evening of May 22 2017.

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