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A hero surgeon who battled to help the Manchester terror victims for 48 hours was racially abused and branded a terrorist on his drive back to work.

Naveed Yasin told the Sunday Times a white middle-aged van driver wound down his window and hurled the racist slurs as he drove to Salford Royal Hospital to continue treating the victims.

The man screamed: "You brown, P*** b******.

"Go back to your country, you terrorist. We don't want you people here. F*** off."

Manchester Arena Terror Attack: Victims 16 show all Manchester Arena Terror Attack: Victims 1/16 Nell Jones, 14, who died in the Manchester attack PA 2/16 Jane Tweddle, 50 of Blackpool, was also killed 3/16 'Inseperable couple' Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19 4/16 Scottish teenager Eilidh MacLeod, 14, was confirmed to have been killed in the blast PA 5/16 Michelle Kiss died in the blast. Her family have said they are "absolutely devastated" PA 6/16 Saffie-Rose Roussos eight, from Lancashire, had been at the concert with her mother and sister when she was killed in the blast 7/16 Wendy Fawell died in the attack Collect 8/16 Olivia Campbell, 15, is also confirmed among the dead after a desperate search to find her 9/16 Ariana Grande ‘superfan’ Georgina Callander, 18, was one of the first victims to be named 10/16 Lisa Lees and Alison Howe were killed while waiting in the foyer to collect their children Facebook 11/16 Kelly Brewster died shielding her niece from the blast 12/16 John Atkinson, 26, was also killed in the suicide blast 13/16 Polish couple Angelika and Marcin Klis are confirmed among the dead in the Manchester attack Credit: Family photograph 14/16 Victim: Martyn Hett has been confirmed as one of those killed in the attack 15/16 Confirmed dead: 14-year-old Sorrell Leczowski Facebook 16/16 Victim: Elaine McIver, an off-duty police officer Greater Manchester Police 1/16 Nell Jones, 14, who died in the Manchester attack PA 2/16 Jane Tweddle, 50 of Blackpool, was also killed 3/16 'Inseperable couple' Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19 4/16 Scottish teenager Eilidh MacLeod, 14, was confirmed to have been killed in the blast PA 5/16 Michelle Kiss died in the blast. Her family have said they are "absolutely devastated" PA 6/16 Saffie-Rose Roussos eight, from Lancashire, had been at the concert with her mother and sister when she was killed in the blast 7/16 Wendy Fawell died in the attack Collect 8/16 Olivia Campbell, 15, is also confirmed among the dead after a desperate search to find her 9/16 Ariana Grande ‘superfan’ Georgina Callander, 18, was one of the first victims to be named 10/16 Lisa Lees and Alison Howe were killed while waiting in the foyer to collect their children Facebook 11/16 Kelly Brewster died shielding her niece from the blast 12/16 John Atkinson, 26, was also killed in the suicide blast 13/16 Polish couple Angelika and Marcin Klis are confirmed among the dead in the Manchester attack Credit: Family photograph 14/16 Victim: Martyn Hett has been confirmed as one of those killed in the attack 15/16 Confirmed dead: 14-year-old Sorrell Leczowski Facebook 16/16 Victim: Elaine McIver, an off-duty police officer Greater Manchester Police

A shocked Mr Yasin said his own daughter could have been caught up in the Manchester Arena concert bombing that killed 22, as she had wanted to see Ariana Grande.

He spent a hectic first 48-hours after the blast treating the injured but was hit with the torrent of abuse as he drove back to work the next day.

The surgeon, who grew up just 30 miles away in Keighley, West Yorkshire, said he was taken aback by the hatred.

But he told the paper: "Manchester is better than this.

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

The 37-year-old explained staff had found the horrific nature of the injuries they had to treat extremely distressing and the impact on the families was "soul-destroying".

He told the paper: "Many of my colleagues and I had never experienced injuries from a bomb blast and the effect it has, seeing these, is extremely profound and traumatising."

Greater Manchester Police said last week there had been a spike in hate crimes after the bombing.