direct to your inboxA botched terror training exercise which foreshadowed delays in getting firefighters to the Manchester Arena bombing was a 'disaster', the public inquiry into the atrocity has been told.The emergency services took part in a huge terrorism training exercise, in which a suicide bomber scenario was played out at the Trafford Centre in May, 2016, a year before the real attack at the Arena.But Greater Manchester Police failed to alert fellow blue light colleagues about the fictional marauding terror strike as planned.It meant firefighters and paramedics arrived at the shopping city 90 minutes late, the independent inquiry into Arena attack was told.In May 2017 when Salman Abedi detonated his device at Manchester Arena, the.
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