Naveed Yasin was racially abused on his way back into work (Picture: Guzelian)

An NHS surgeon who had spent 48 hours trying to save Manchester attack victims was called a ‘P***’ and a ‘terrorist’ on his way back into work.

Naveed Yasin, 37, had just spent two harrowing shifts trying to save the lives of those injured in Monday night’s devastating attack at Manchester Arena.

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After a brief rest at home, he was travelling back into work at Salford Royal Hospital when a white middle-aged man racially abused him.

The man, driving past him, lowered his car window and shouted at Dr Yasin: ‘You brown P*** bastard! Go back to your country, you terrorist. We don’t want you people here. Fuck off.’




Dr Yasin, an orthopaedic surgeon, was born in Keighley in West Yorkshire, but now lives in Manchester with his wife and two daughters.

He had spent 48 hours trying to save the lives of Manchester terror victims (Picture: Guzelian)

‘No matter what I say to myself, I can’t take away the hatred he had for me because of my skin colour, and the prejudices he associated with this,’ he told The Times.

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Dr Yasin also said that treating the seriously injured victims was incredibly distressing.

‘The injuries patients have had include horrific [damage] to limbs, typical bomb-blast injuries,’ he said.

‘Open fractures. Patients with penetrating injuries from shrapnel. It’s soul destroying to see what these families are going through.’

Many of the attack victims – Ariana’s fans – were children and teenagers (Picture: Getty Images)

Dr Yasin added that his daughter could have been among the victims.

His eldest daughter Amelia, 11, had wanted to go to the targeted Ariana Grande concert, but he and his wife Firdaus ruled against it because it was on a school night.

He said: ‘It could have so easily been us.’

Salman Abedi killed 22 people when he detonated a nail bomb near the entrance to Manchester Arena, as people were leaving an Ariana Grande concert.