Manchester Arena bombing: Delays in emergency response may have cost lives, inquiry hears

The inquiry, which will run into spring 2021, will 'probe deeply, but fairly, into what happened.'

British Transport Police officer, PC Jessica Bullough, said in a statement:"I ran into the City Room and I can only describe it as a war zone there."There were a number of casualties on the floor, blood everywhere and the whole place was smoky and, in my words, was carnage...there were nuts and bolts scattered everywhere."

More ambulance teams did arrive in the following hour but crews of firefighters were not allowed in to help until two hours and six minutes after the explosion. British Transport Police declared a major incident that night at 10:39pm, but will be criticised during expert evidence for not immediately sharing that information with Greater Manchester Police.

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