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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Graeme Culliford

'Manchester Arena terror attack could have ruined our lives but singing has healed us'

Pop fans Ava Turner and Catherine Burke were just 10 years old when they watched their idol Ariana Grande sing on stage for the first time.

What should have been the best night of their young lives quickly transformed into the worst when a terrorist unleashed carnage in the foyer of Manchester Arena.

Catherine and her parents were making their way home and were just five metres from extremist Salman Abedi, 22, when his shrapnel-laden homemade bomb exploded, inflicting them with serious injuries.

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