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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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John Scheerhout

Manchester Arena bombing victim John Atkinson could have survived if emergency services response had been better, report concludes

One of the 22 people killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing could have survived if the emergency services response had have been better, a report has concluded.

John Atkinson, 28, told those caring for him: "I'm going to die."

Volume II of the inquiry findings into the atrocity today lays bare a catalogue of key failures by the emergency services on the night of the terror attack.

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