it's being claimed the youngest victim
of the manchester arena attack
could have survived if she'd received
better first aid
safie russos 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
our north of england correspondent
judith moritz has been speaking
exclusively to sapphi's father andrew
and a warning her report contains
distressing details
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 at safie's picture since
i've read this report i can't look at
her
when safie russos 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 and might have
survived if her leg injuries had been
treated properly
nobody from the first aiders applied
pressure
or assessed her properly or splintered
the legs or tornique 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 bled to death put bluntly
your experts believe safi could
possibly have survived yes
this must be heartbreaking for you it
destroys you destroys you
safi 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
and now her family has learned details
which are unbearable
safely asked the paramedic whether she
was gonna die
eight-year-olds don't ask them questions
it doesn't matter how hurt they are
they want the mum the one they want to
be treated they want to be out of pain
not to be in a sound mind to ask a
paramedic whether she's going to die
whilst all this was happening safie's
dad and brother were searching for her
at the arena
they didn't know she'd gone to hospital
now they've learned that opportunities
were missed
there too our medical experts
have suggested that there was procedures
that safie could have had and she didn't
she was losing that much blood
and there wasn't a successful
procedure in place to get that blood
into saffi
even in a a why
experts on behalf of the manchester
arena inquiry
say that safie's injuries were
unsurvivable
but this new information comes from
different experts
appointed by her family now we find out
that it's two different opinions
how can that happen i thought inquiry is
there for us
to give us the answers that we
or even safie deserves
in the months ahead safie's mum and dad
will hear evidence from the people who
are 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