'I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR SAVING MY LIFE'

Wheelchair-bound Ariana Grande fan searching for mystery men who carried her to safety during Manchester bombing

Klicea-Nicole Richardson, 20, fears she would have been crushed to death in stampede

A WHEELCHAIR user caught up in Monday's terror attack has thanked the mystery men who saved her life by carrying her to safety.

Klicea-Nicole Richardson, 20, was carried from the Manchester Arena in the moments after the attack by two men who bravely stopped to help her despite the carnage.

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Klicea-Nicole Richardson, pictured before the gig, believes two men who carried her to safety saved her life during Monday's terror attackCredit: Cavendish Press

After seeing friends of Klicea-Nicole struggle to get her to safety amid the stampede, both men lifted Klicea as she sat in her chair and carried her and the chair down a flight of stairs urging her not to panic.

They the disappeared after they got her outside.

Today the college student, from Stockport, Gtr Manchester, said: "I'd just like to thank them personally really for possibly saving my life because if it wasn't for them helping I would have been stuck there longer.

Klicea-Nicole attended the concert with six pals, but they struggled to carry her down stairs as they fled the venue in panicCredit: Cavendish Press

Klicea-Nicole was at the Ariana Grande concert with six of her friends said: ''Our group were just coming out of the concert hall and walking towards the foyer area when all I heard was a really loud bang and then I felt a vibration through my body, then the building shook.

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"I felt a strong feel of heat then I saw people's faces and they were screaming and crying and running towards the exit doors.

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"I just remember seeing blood on people and that's when my friends and boyfriend ran with me in my wheelchair, but one of the wheels is faulty so it wouldn't go as fast as we wanted it to go.

"We finally made it to the doors that's when we realised that there was only stairs so my boyfriend Tom and friends Katie and Kieran tried lifting my chair with me in it.

"But they was struggling as Kieran had hold of his little brother as well and Katie just wasn't strong enough.

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Klicea-Nicole has Arthrogryposis, a condition which means that her muscles didn't develop properly and she cannot walk at all.

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