Manchester Attack Victims To Receive £250,000

FAMILIES of the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena attack are set to receive £250,000 from the millions of pounds raised from public donations.

Bereaved relatives have already been able to claim £70,000 from the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, which was set up in the wake of the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22. The victims' next of kin are now eligible for a further £180,000.

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The 57 people who spent seven or more nights in hospital due to injuries incurred from the blast have also received £60,000 each from the collection, which is estimated to have reached over £17m thanks to public generosity and events, such as the One Love Manchester concert.

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The June 4 benefit gig saw Grande return to the city with pop music colleagues Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, One Direction's Niall Horan, Usher and Pharrell Williams. 50,000 supporters filled the Old Trafford Cricket Ground for a night of music and messages of love and resilience. More than £13m was raised at the sold-out event, andGrande has been made an honorary Mancunian.

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14 Jun 2017

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“The city and the world responded with such extreme kindness, generosity and solidarity in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack,” chair of the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund’s trustees, Sue Murphy, said of the sum,which will not be confirmed until all of the pledged money comes in.

Now that funds have been distributed to those with “immediate needs”, Murphy’s team “will spend some time looking at how [to] distribute the rest of the funds. This will be a complex and sensitive process as we will need to assess the long-term impacts of the attack. We will issue an update as soon as we know more.”