The father of a girl injured in the Southport attacks found her lying in the street where she had collapsed as she told him: "Daddy, I'm OK," the inquiry has heard.

The girl had staggered out of the dance class after she was stabbed in the chest and arm, and then stabbed another six times in the back when she tried to defend her younger sister.

As the children struggle to process what happened, another girl has recently told her parents that "bad things happen in the holidays."

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Southport survivor 'thought she was going to die'

Her mother told the inquiry: "As her parents, we struggle with the answer. We try to reassure her, we tell her she is safe, but she looks us in the eye and says, 'but something bad did happen,

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