Daily Mirror

‘We were by ourselves, just trying to do our best’

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HELP Rob Grew was in Arena ONE member of the public who was in the Arena believes lives could have been saved if medical teams had arrived earlier.

Rob Grew told the BBC: “After about 40 minutes of trying to deal with people I was on my own, just trying to do my best.

“It was the same for any other members of the public who had gone in to help, they were just by themselves.”

He said he and others made makeshift stretchers out of barriers and T-shirt stands to carry people.

He said: “There was one lady who passed away next to me while I was trying to attend to someone else.”

And he claimed that 20 minutes after the explosion, there were still only three ambulance staff at the scene.

Asked if people could have been saved if there had been more profession­al medical assistance, he said: “Definitely in the first 15 minutes, definitely more could have been done.

“When the medical teams came in I was assisting them, providing and writing down details for every casualty, when their morphine was taken etc, just so that when they got to hospital they had all their details. They just did not have the staff to do it.”

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