The last moments of John Atkinson's life must have been as terrifying as they were painful. More than once he told the heroic few tending to his terribly injured legs 'I'm going to die' as he waited, and waited, to be removed from the foyer where suicide bomber Salman Abedi had just detonated a huge, improvised device packed with nuts in his rucksack.
But those who went to his aid just didn't have the expertise - or the tourniquets - to stem the catastrophic bleeding that led to his death. READ MORE:Shocking footage shows man hurling 'machete' at car wing mirrors on residential street Eventually, he was dragged from the foyer where the blast happened, known as The City Room, on a red advertising hoarding which was buckling under his weight,
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