Pakistani-origin doctor racially abused 48 hours after saving Manchester victims

Naveed Yasin said his work to save victims was ‘extremely profound and traumatising’

A National Health Service (NHS) surgeon who spent at least 48 hours saving the lives of people caught up in the Manchester Arena terror attack was bombarded with shocking racial abuse as he drove back to work to help more victims, The Independent reported.

The Pakistani-origin doctor was called a ‘brown, P*** b******’ and a ‘terrorist’ by a middle-aged man in a van after spending two days operating on the injured people. He was on his way back to Salford Royal Hospital to continue his work when the man pulled up beside him and hurled abuse at him.



The driver, who blasted his horn, told him: “You brown, P*** b******.”

“Go back to your country, you terrorist. We don’t want you people here. F*** off!”

Yasin, 37, lives in Trafford with his wife and two daughters. He was born and brought up in Keighley, West Yorkshire. His great-grandfather moved to Yorkshire from Pakistan in the 1960s.

Children were among 22 people killed last week in a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the British city of Manchester, the country’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years.

“I can’t take away the hatred he had for me because of my skin colour... and the prejudices he had associated with this,” Yasin told The Sunday Times.

“Manchester is better than this.”



“We Mancunians will rebuild, we will rebuild the fallen buildings, the broken lives and the social cohesion we once had.”

He added, “Terror attacks don’t discriminate against race or religion but this [the racial abuse] didn’t discriminate either.”