![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/manchester-bombing-victims-failed-on-unfathomable-scale-families-say/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/tributes-victims-manchester-attack-gig-326798053-2.jpg&description=THE Manchester Arena bombing victims were failed by emergency services on an "unfathomable scale", Saffie-Rose Roussos' family say. Saffie-Rose, eight, was the youngest of the 22 people who died in the May 2017 terror attack. Saffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena terror attack - she was just eight years oldCredit: Splash News Victim John Atkinson could have survived the bombing had it not been for the "inadequate" emergency response, an inquiry has foundCredit: Enterprise News and Pictures These are the 22 victims of the horror May 2017 attackCredit: PA A critical report has today found at least one of the victims would have survived the attack had it not been for the "inadequate" emergency response. That one person was 28-year-old John Atkinson. Sir John Saunders, the public inquiry's chairman who wrote the report, said he also found it was "highly unlikely" Saffie-Rose would have survived with a quicker emergency response - but there was "a remote possibility". It took paramedics 43 minutes to reach the scene and firefighters who were stationed just three miles away did not arrive until after the last seriously injured victim had been rushed to hospital. Police also had wrongly reported the crime as a marauding gun incident. Both Saffie-Rose's and John's family have since spoken out in the wake of today's report. Solicitor Nicola Brook, who represents the family of Saffie-Rose and four other victims' families, said the "damning report" revealed what families always knew. She continued: "That all the organisations meant to protect their loved ones failed on an enormous and unfathomable scale. "To compound the families' pain, they were then forced to listen to denials, excuses and finger-pointing rather than admissions of the terrible mistakes made." Ms Brook said "so much distress could have been spared had Greater Manchester Police admitted its glaring failures from the start". Saffie-Rose was four metres from the explosion, which unf){kind=link}
THE Manchester Arena bombing victims were failed by emergency services on an “unfathomable scale”, Saffie-Rose Roussos’ family say.
Saffie-Rose, eight, was the youngest of the 22 people who died in the May 2017 terror attack.
A critical report has today found at least one of the victims would have survived the attack had it not been for the “inadequate” emergency response.
That one person was 28-year-old John Atkinson.
Sir John Saunders, the public inquiry’s chairman who wrote the report, said he also found it was “highly unlikely” Saffie-Rose would have survived with a quicker emergency response – but there was “a remote possibility”.