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image captionSaskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed during a conference on rehabilitating offenders
A victim of the Fishmongers Hall terror attack had to be taken away from the building for treatment due to safety concerns, a medic has said.
Paramedic Carlton Cullinan told an inquest the scene, on 29 November 2019, was generally messy and chaotic .
Responders did not know whether the terror attack was still continuing when they entered the hall, he added.
It was decided Jack Merritt should be carried to an emergency doctor further up the road near Monument Tube station.
The inquest, at London s Guildhall, is examining the deaths of Mr Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, who were stabbed to death by convicted terrorist Usman Khan.
A doctor has told an inquest of the “unprecedented” decision to enter the scene of the Fishmongers’ Hall terror attack to help casualties despite bomb fears.
Convicted terrorist Usman Khan fatally stabbed Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a Learning Together offenders’ education conference on the afternoon of November 29 2019.
Khan, 28, who had travelled to London from his home in Stafford, had set upon Mr Merritt in the men’s toilets after strapping two large knives into his hands.
Mr Merritt suffered 12 knife wounds, including a fatal injury to his chest.
Ms Jones was stabbed in the neck in the cloakroom area and staggered on to the stairs, where she collapsed.
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