The father of a 14-year-old girl injured in the Manchester terror attack has revealed the horrifying moment she called him during the aftermath of the suicide bombing.
Trapped under debris she told him: "Daddy, Daddy, I can't move my legs."
"There's blood everywhere. There's been an explosion. I can't move."
Rockey, 39, who was in Scotland at the time of the attack, told Rossendale Free Press: "I had to be up early and went to sleep and woke up after 10.30pm.
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"I had about eight missed calls. Ella then rang me saying, 'Daddy, daddy, I can't move my legs. There's blood everywhere.
"'There's been an explosion. I can't move,' and then her phone went dead.
"I was just thinking, 'My God, what do I do?' I decided to get dressed, get in the car and drive down. I had to.
"I had family ringing me all the way down. I then met Ella and my wife at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital."
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The teenager had travelled to the venue with a friend and was buying T-shirts in the foyer when the attack happened.
Rockey, who works in the military, said she was helped by an 'amazing woman' who waited with her while emergency services arrived and contacted her family.
He said: "Ella has got about eight shrapnel insertions or lacerations on her legs. Some of them have required stitches.
"She was in the foyer where the main explosion happened and from what she's mentioned people directly in front of her took the brunt of the blast.
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"I think she was in the region of about 15m from the blast. I think both her ears are perforated.
"She had all the debris on her. She was absolutely covered head to toe in filth and blood. Pain-wise, she is quite a tough little cookie, but she's let out quite a few snippets of information about what she's seen.
"She was on the floor and had to brush other people off her to get out of the foyer area."
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A total of 22 people were killed - and a further 120 injured - after the suicide bomb attack on Monday evening at Manchester Arena.
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