Two homeless men have become unlikely heroes of the Manchester attacks – with moving accounts of how they helped victims.
Homeless man held dying woman in his arms after Manchester terror attack
The two men, Steve Jones and Chris Parker, were in the area to sleep and beg for money.
Chris Parker, 33, was in the foyer area of the venue, where he regularly goes to beg for money as concertgoers head home, when the attack occurred – and said he saw a ‘flash of light’ before the blast.
Mr Parker, who has slept rough in the city for about a year, spoke about a woman in her 60s who suffered fatal leg and head injuries in the bombing.
‘She passed away in my arms. Said she had been with her family. I haven’t stopped crying.’
He also helped a little girl who had lost both her legs in the explosion. ‘I saw a little girl…she had no legs. I wrapped her in one of the merchandise T-shirts and I said “where’s your mum and daddy?”.
‘She said “my dad is at work, my mum is up there”. He said he thought the child’s mother had died from her injuries.
A GoFundMe page to raise money for Parker has already raised more than £8,000 – and his estranged mother has appealed for him to get in touch via social media.
Steve Jones told ITV news how he helped children who had been blasted with nails, ‘It was children with blood all over them, they were crying and screaming. We were having to pull nails out of their arms and a couple out of a little girl’s face.
‘Just because I’m homeless doesn’t mean I’ve not got a heart, and I’m not human still.
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