"I was worried in the run up to this anniversary that the families (of the victims) and those still injured who were struggling would think that the world had somehow moved on with the current crisis", Andy Burnham said candidly. "We haven't forgotten, and we never will." It's been three years since the devastating terrorist attack at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017, which claimed the lives of 22 innocent people.
Many people in the region and further afield are still living with the mental and physical scars from the atrocity. The world we are living in three years later is a very different place, but the strength and solidarity of the community in the wake of the attack is still as strong as ever.
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