The Manchester Arena bombing - a terror attack that shocked the city and the nation to its core. Terrorist Salman Abedi killed himself and 22 others when he detonated a suicide bomb in his backpack as mainly young concert-goers were leaving an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
Those who died came from different walks of life and from as far afield as the Hebrides; schoolchildren, students, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, working men and women. The youngest victim was only eight years old.
Hundreds of others were injured in the attack and many were treated in hospitals across Greater Manchester. In August 2020 Hashem Abedi, the brother of Salman Abedi, was found guilty of 22 counts of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 55 years.
