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Arena bomb inquiry hears lives could have been saved if security checks had covered mezzanine level of City Room

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direct to your inboxLives could have been saved had 'pre-egress' security checks carried out after crowds left the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena covered a mezzanine level of the City Room area, the public inquiry into the bombing atrocity heard.Suicide bomber Salman Abedi hid there within a CCTV blind spot for almost an hour before he killed 22 people in May, 2017, with an explosive device.The bomber's hiding place wasn't checked before crowds left the concert as it should have been, the inquiry has been told.Security experts giving evidence said Abedi would likely have been spotted and reported to the Arena control room had the Showsec patrols covered the area in their pre-egress checks.Dr David BaMaung, a former police.

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