How an iPhone saved Manchester mum's life
A woman wounded in the Manchester suicide bombing has narrowly avoided death, thanks to her phone.
Lisa Bridgett, 45, was midway through a phone call when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb killing 22 people, injuring dozens others and sending a steel nut hurtling towards her head.
The nut sliced off her finger before deflecting off her phone and cut through her cheek before finally becoming lodged in her nose.
Despite also having surgery to remove shrapenel from her ankle and thigh, her husband said if it hadn’t been for her phone, his wife would likely have been killed.
“Lisa is in a positive mood and feels very lucky to be alive,” he wrote on Facebook.
“The fact that she was on the phone at the time probably saved her life … as the nut has hit her phone which has more than likely not only diverted it, but also slowed it down considerably.”
Adding some humour to what has been a grim week for the united city of Manchester, Steve said he doesn’t look forward to the couple going through airport security.
“She will make a full recovery although I don’t think the finger will grow back!” he added. “Onwards and upwards…..she’ll soon be propping the bar up again!”
“[It’s going to be a] bloody pain in the a--- at airport security!!”
