Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A mum at Manchester Arena to collect her daughter and niece from the Ariana Grande concert told of the 'unbelievable heat' and 'high-pitched sound' of the bomb detonating.
And a doctor with his family recalled how a police officer carried his badly-injured 10-year-old daughter out of the venue in his arms.
The public inquiry into the 2017 bombing has started to hear evidence from people who were at the Arena and in the City Room foyer area on the night and survived.
Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said: "The devastating experiences of those directly affected by the attack provide an emphatic confirmation of the need to do all that
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