Hundreds were injured and 22 killed when a suicide bomber detonated a homemade explosive device in the Arena foyer at the end of Ariana Grande‘s show at the venue on May 22, 2017.A public inquiry into the attacks began last September, with the report’s chairman Sir John Saunders saying that bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat by security at the venue.
In the newly published report, he added that there were missed opportunities to minimise the “devastating impact” of the attack.Now, Paul Hett, father of 29-year-old victim Martyn, who died in the attack, said the bombing “should have been prevented”.“This inquiry has rightly found that we were failed by them on every level,” Hett said of the organisations being.
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