Manchester surgeon: 'The families understand this attack does not represent Muslims'

Mohamed Ismail Aly, one of the surgeons to operate on victims of last week’s attack, tells of his experiences on the night

Mohamed Ismail Aly, 44, is a consultant burns and plastic surgeon at the Royal Manchester children’s hospital

I got the call at about midnight – it woke me up. It was the hospital switchboard informing me that there had been a major incident and I had to come in. They didn’t say what had happened but I checked on the BBC website and saw that something had happened at the arena. On the way to the hospital, I was listening to the local radio and they didn’t seem to know quite what had happened. Some people were suggesting that one of the speakers had blown at the arena.

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