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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
John Scheerhout & Abigail Nicholson

Manchester Arena terror attack victim could have survived, report finds

One of the 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena terror attack could have survived if emergency services responded adequately, an inquiry has found.

Volume II of the Manchester Arena inquiry findings found a catalogue of failures by the emergency services on the night of the terror attack. The inquiry's author ruled one of the 22 who were killed, John Atkinson, 28, could have survived, MEN reports.

Sir John Saunders, chairman of the inquiry said: "It is likely that inadequacies in the emergency response prevented his survival."

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