Young, inexperienced doctors without appropriate training raced to the scene of the Arena bomb from their homes in Manchester 'Good Samaritan-style' to help the injured, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.
They were teamed up with more experienced doctors present and together, treated casualties brought down from the City Room blast zone to the concourse at Manchester Victoria railway station.
Some of the most seriously-injured casualties, the inquiry was told on Thursday, waited up to three hours to go to hospital.
Dr Edward Tunn, a North West Ambulance Service associate medical director who drove to the scene with his son, a specialist paramedic, said he was 'astonished' by the number of ambulances that 'were made available'
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