article: Twenty-two people were killed in the explosion, including an eight-year-old girl. A further 59 people, including 12 under the age of 16, were injured and taken to hospital. Nick Haywood, 46, from Nottingham was waiting for his 16-year-old daughter Caitlin and her friend, also 16, when the explosion happened. He said: "You could feel it, you could feel the noise. It was incredibly loud. My first thought was to find my daughter. "People were already starting to filter out. You could tell something was wrong, no-one was laughing or chatting. Some people were running, a bit of mild panic. "I was trying to get hold of them on the phone but the network was down so I made my way into the arena. Seeing her on the stairs was a huge relief. "It was like she was almost born again. It was the best moment of my life all over again." Caitlin had planned and saved up for the trip for months. She said: "We were so excited when the day came and we were listening to her music on the train. We were so excited, but it turned out to be be a bad experience. "When people said [the noise] was a balloon or a speaker, in the back of my head I knew it was a bomb and we needed to get out. "I thought the next minute people with guns were going to start coming in." She said she and her friend were near the front of the stage when the blast took place and she said people were getting crushed as they panicked and ran for the exit. "As soon as Ariana Grande left [the stage] the lights went out and the bomb went off. That made me think that this person planned it so well." Stephanie Hill and her daughter Kennedy were at the concert. She said the police and emergency services entered the building soon after the blast, but she still didn't feel safe. "The police were all there, there were armed police with... their guns, there were ambulances. "They were there so quickly it was unbelievable. But we didn't know, even then we didn't know what was going on. "We were thinking 'oh my God, we're going to get shot'. "So we ran, we ran and we hid under a bridge for about forty minutes." Kennedy said at first the arena was "scarily still for five or six seconds... then everybody just ran." The Manchester community that rushed to help Leah Cassidy, 16, from Radcliffe was at the concert with her friend. "As the concert finished and we were nearing the tunnel to leave the auditorium, there was a huge bang that shook the whole ground. The whole auditorium went deadly quiet for five seconds and then the screaming began. "The bomb went off near our tunnel. Because everyone started pushing back from the tunnel we were going to, my friend and I held hands and started to run to the opposite direction. "As we were running, I saw smoke everywhere and shoes on the
summary: Witnesses have described the chaos and horror after a fatal explosion at the concert by US pop star Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena.