Heroine I didn’t think of danger
A woman has told how she ignored fears for her own safety as she ran to the aid of victims of Khalid Masood on Westminster Bridge – just moments after the atrocity.
Emma Kelsall, 34, and her partner Lisa Callaghan, 35, cared for three of them on the bridge for more than two hours
Lisa tenderly nursed an Italian woman – known only as Alana – who had suffered a serious head injury and had blood streaming from her head.
Emma cared for another woman, a Londoner whose ankle was so badly broken it was facing the wrong way.
And the pair, from Failsworth, Lancashire, both did everything they could for a man who had blood gushing from his shin and had been left terrified for his girlfriend’s life after telling them she had fallen into the river.
Emma, a children’s home worker, said: “You can’t not do something for people in that situation. They desperately needed our help. I didn’t think about the danger, instinct just took over.
“There wasn’t much we could do apart from stay there with them and do our best to reassure them and keep them calm, but there was no way we could have left them.”
She added: “We haven’t heard anything about the three people or what has happened to them. We’re just hoping they’re OK.”