Manchester attack: Others will die 'unless Government opens its eyes', say parents
Georgina Callander's family speaks out
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester bombing victim Georgina Callander's family has hit out at the Government over her death, saying they are “only another in a long line of parents on a list that continues to grow”.
The 18-year-old was killed in the blast shortly after her favourite artist Ariana Grande left the stage at the Manchester Arena on Monday.
In a statement released through Greater Manchester Police, her family said the teenager's life had been cut short by “evil, evil men prepared to ruin lives and destroy families”.
They added: “I wish I could say that Georgina is one of the last to die in this way but unless our Government opens its eyes we know we are only another in a long line of parents on a list that continues to grow.”
Lesley Callander found her daughter on a stretcher as paramedics fought to save her life in the aftermath of the explosion.
She described her desperate efforts to bring comfort to the teenager's final moments to ITV news on Saturday.
“I was just screaming and shouting at her. I was rubbing her hands, I was rubbing her tummy, I was rubbing her face,” she said.
“I don't know what was running through her mind.
“It was just a flicker of hope that she'd move her hand or move her leg or try and open her eyes a little, just to acknowledge that I was there, just to let me know that she was very, very poorly but she knew that I was there.”
The teenager, from Chorley, was in her second year of studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, and had previously been a pupil at Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy.
The family's statement said: “On 22 May 2017 our lives changed forever as our amazing daughter Georgina Bethany Callander was senselessly taken away.
“Her life was taken away after 18 short years by evil, evil men prepared to ruin lives and destroy families, for what?
“Georgina was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside, with a smile that was never ending.
“She always had big hugs for everyone and her life was blooming like the flowers she loved.”
The teenager had recently passed her driving test, was “doing great” in her exams and had been accepted into Edge Hill University.
“Here was a girl who was loving life,” they said.
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