Teenage blast victims ‘together forever’

A LITTLE girl being comforted by a policewoman in the minutes after the Manchester bomb attack had just lost her mother, it has been revealed.

Mother of three Michelle Kiss, from Blackburn, was yesterday identified as one of the 22 who lost their lives when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated his bomb in the Manchester Arena.

A photograph taken just after the atrocity showed a policewoman consoling a distraught little girl.

It has now emerged the girl was Mrs Kiss’s only daughter, child actor Millie, 12, whose mum had taken her to watch the Ariana Grande concert.

The latest victims to be identified include teen couple Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, who “wanted to be together forever”, Sorrell Leczkowski and Nell Jones, both 14, Liverpool schoolgirl Megan Hurley, 15, Scotland’s Eilidh MacLeod, 14, and Blackpool mother of three Jane Tweddle-Taylor, 51.

The families of Chloe Rutherford and her boyfriend Liam Curry released a statement saying the pair, from coastal town South Shields, northeast of Manchester, were “perfect in every way for each other”.

“Their wings were ready but our hearts were not,” the statement said. “They were beautiful inside and out to ourselves and our families, they were inseparable.

“They wanted to be together forever and now they are.”

Sorrell Leczkowski, of Leeds, was at the concert with her mother and grandmother, who are recovering in hospital.

The parents of Eilidh MacLeod, who went with a friend and had been missing since Monday evening, said in a statement: “Words cannot express how we feel at losing our darling Eilidh.”

Greater Manchester chief constable Ian Hopkins yesterday said police believed they knew the identities of all 22 people who were killed.