A GLASGOW teenager has told of his horror after fleeing a concert targeted by a suicide bomber.

Chris Smith, 18, was at the Ariana Grande gig in Manchester on Monday night when a terrorist attack took place at the city’s MEN Arena.

The Tollcross music fan was at the concert with his boyfriend Conor when they heard an explosion, and chaos quickly spread across the venue.

Speaking to the Evening Times, the City of Glasgow college student described how the audience were getting ready to leave when they heard a “loud bang”.

Chris said: “ Everybody stopped.

“There was a two or three-second silence, of nothing at all, and then people on the upper tiers just started screaming and running.

“ I had come down with my boyfriend Conor and I grabbed his hand and just started running.

“I just had to get out. I needed out. We weren’t sure for definite what it was, but because people started screaming and panicking I just did the same and ran out of the building.”

Chris explained the couple had been sitting on the ground level, near an exit, and were able to escape the venue quickly but were shocked to see the carnage when they got outside.

He said: “I can't remember much, it was a blur. We were just running for ages and ages, and cars were stopping in the middle of the road to let people run out.

“I walked past one woman who was in tears because her daughter was still inside the arena and she didn’t know where she was

“I offered to stay with her but she said he husband had found her and she would be fine.”

Not only was Chris in the arena when the suicide bomber detonated the deadly explosive, he was also at the city’s Arndale shopping centre yesterday when mass hysteria broke out and the shopping centre was evacuated.

Police later confirmed it was a false alarm, however hundreds of people could be seen screaming and running from the mall in terror.

Another concert goer, Abby Mullen, took to social media to say she was “very lucky to be alive” after the bomb exploded”centimetres in front of me.”

She posted graphic images of her handbag and her mum’s hair covered in blood, along with blood on her clothes.

The Airdrie resident wrote: “People’s skin and blood were everywhere.

“ I’m still finding bits of god knows what in my hair.

“ That sound, the blood and those who were running around clueless with body parts and bits of skin missing will not leave my mind any time soon or the minds of those involved.

“Very lucky to be where I am just now.”

Glasgow resident Chris McDaid was working in department store Selfridges, directly across from the MEN Arena, when the explosion went off on Monday night.

He was locked in the store’s canteen along with other employees for five hours while police combed the area, and hundreds of emergency service vehicles rushed to the scene.

Chris, a workshop manager from Cardonald, said he had gone to his van outside Selfridges to collect tools when he saw people running from the venue, screaming in horror.

He said:” I saw all these people coming out, screaming and in floods of tears.

“I realised there was something going on. Security guards were rushing about trying to get us, then they took us all in to the canteen.

“We were locked in there from about 11pm til 4am.

“There’s a terrace and we watched outside as the police came with sniffer dogs, bomb disposal units...ambulances everywhere.

“There were hundreds of them going back and forward from the hospital. There were easily more than 100 police cars.”

When the 32-year-old went back to the hotel around 4am he said he saw “loads of kids who hadn’t been reunited with their parents”

He explained: “It was just full of young girls going to this concert, they were all hysterical.”