23 May, 2017
"Everybody started screaming and running", he said. "The people were pushing and pushing".
On social media, people shared videos of people rushing from the arena and ambulances arriving.
Prime Minister Theresa May will chair an emergency Cobra meeting in London into the suspected terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert, which left 19 dead and more than 50 injured.
Police said they believe a man carrying explosives acted as a lone attacker and died in the powerful blast that shook part of the cavernous Manchester Arena as concertgoers streamed out after the pop star's final set.
People turned to social media in an effort to help those affected by the attack, offering everything from places to stay and free taxi rides to phone chargers under the Twitter hashtag #RoomForManchester.
"There was a lot of little girls running out, and parents shouting out and yelling names", witness Ivo Delgado said.
"We managed to get away within about three of four minutes".
Manchester resident Charlotte Campbell told CNN as she was still waiting for news on her 15-year-old daughter, Olivia.
Her daughter, Olivia and her friend Adam were missing after attending the concert, Campbell said. More than 200 people were injured, though no one was killed. The concert was a treat for Adam's birthday, she said.
The blast occurred just before 10:35 p.m. local time as the concert was wrapping up, according to Greater Manchester Police.
Andy Holey, who had gone to the arena to pick up his wife and daughter, said: "An explosion went off and it threw me about 30ft from one set of doors to the other set of doors".
"I'm getting her a flight today".
"It's the most frightful feeling ever to know that your daughter's there".
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said the attacker in the bombing acted alone while detonating an "improvised explosive device" and he died at the arena.
Monday's bomb attack has raised concerns that a more sophisticated network may exist in the country than previously thought.
Some parents still haven't heard from their children.
A father described seeing "carnage everywhere" to the BBC.
"At precisely 10.33pm as the concert ended and people were filling towards the exit, this guy had come in via a public area. and the perpetrator had come in with his rucksack and quite deliberately timed it to people coming out of the exits".
His brother's heart was "beating out of his chest", he said. "It was literally seconds after the explosion".
Police have been warning that another attack was highly likely after a man plowed his auto into a crowd on London's Westminister Bridge in March and stabbed a policeman, in an attack that left six dead. "There was at least 20 or 30 people on the floor, some that you could see straight off were just, just dead".
"Security in these venues, it's big business. and it's very, very good".
No, none of the identities of the people who were killed or wounded have been released.
Another witness, Joel Goodman, a freelance photographer said: "The injuries I saw.it didn't look like the sort of injuries that people get from tripping over people in a hurry".
