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  • is being claimed.

  • The youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack could have survived if she'd received better first aid.

  • Saffy Roussos, who was eight, died in the bombing in May 2017, and now experts appointed by her family to investigate what happened have found she was awake and talking for some time after the explosion.

  • A north of England correspondent, Judith Moritz, has been speaking exclusively to staff his father, Andrew Onda, warning her report contains distressing details.

  • Yeah, she could have been saved.

  • How do we carry on living with this information?

  • How can we carry on breathing with this information?

  • I can't look in suffers picture.

  • Since I've read this report can look with her.

  • When Saffy Roux Sauce was killed at Manchester Arena, her parents took comfort, believing she died instantly and suffered no pain.

  • Now, experts appointed by the family's lawyers have found that the little girl lived for more than an hour on might have survived if her leg injuries had been treated properly.

  • Nobody from the First Data's applied pressure or assess the properly or splintered the legs or tonic a the legs to stop the bleeding.

  • Medically trained people with it and she was asking for help and she knew what was happening and she blood to death.

  • Put bluntly, your experts believe Saffy could possibly have survived.

  • Yes, this must be heartbreaking for you.

  • It's destroyer.

  • Destroyer Saffy was the first person to be carried out of the arena.

  • She was put into an ambulance, but the report says it didn't have all the necessary equipment on board.

  • Now her family has learned details which unbearable.

  • Safi asked the paramedic whether she was going to die.

  • Eight year olds don't ask them questions.

  • Doesn't matter how hurt they are.

  • They want the moment they want.

  • They want to be treated.

  • They want to be our pain.

  • Not to be in a sound mind, to ask a paramedic whether she's going to die.

  • Whilst all this was happening, Saffy is Dad and brother were searching for her at the arena.

  • They didn't know she'd gone to hospital.

  • Now they've learned the opportunities were missed.

  • Their to our medical experts have suggested that there waas procedures, that stuff he could have had, and she didn't.

  • She was losing that much blood, and there wasn't successful procedure in place to get the blood into Sophy even in a in a why experts on behalf of the Manchester Arena inquiry say that Saffy is injuries were unsurvivable.

  • But this new information comes from different experts appointed by her family.

  • Now we find out is that it's two different opinions.

  • How can that happen?

  • I thought inquiry is there for us to give us the answers that we it or even Sophy deserves in the months ahead.

  • Saffy is Mom and Dad will hear evidence from the people who were with their daughter in her last moments.

  • They say they want the inquiry to get to the full truth about what happened to their little girl.

  • Judith Moritz, BBC News Manchester.

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