In the call, Ronald Blake can be heard telling a call handler that there had been a large explosion with many people injured
Mr Atkinson, 28, was ‘really injured, with blood pumping from his leg, he said.At one point in the call, he hands over the phone to a healthcare worker at the scene, and then takes the phone back to continue speaking.The phonecall was made at 10.31pm, moments after the explosion on on May 22, 2017, which killed 22 and injured hundreds.Salman Abedi detonated his home-made bomb packed with shrapnel in the City Room, the foyer of the arena, at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.
Mr Atkinson was taken on a makeshift stretcher to a triage area of Victoria Station, which forms part of the arena venue site, and remained there for another 24 minutes but chest compressions were only started on him one hour and 15 minutes after he was first injured in the blast. The fire service, which did have stretchers, only arrived on scene two hours and six minutes after the bomb went off.
‘Within the first 10 minutes, at least 12 BTP officers had reached or were in the immediate vicinity of the City Room,’ he said.‘The inquiry may in due course conclude that in behaving as they did, they showed the very best of humanity, acting selflessly and without apparent regard for the dangers they themselves might be in in order to seek to help those who needed it.
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