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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Dalton

Manchester bombing victim ‘would have survived if not for emergency response failings’

Family handout/Arena inquiry

One of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena suicide bombing would probably have survived but for failings in the emergency response, the inquiry chairman said, as he unveiled a scathing analysis of the rescue operation that night.

Professional tourniquets would have saved John Atkinson’s life, inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders said.

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