Paul Pogba said "the time is right to go back to Old Trafford" after completing his world-record £89m transfer to Manchester United.

The 23-year-old midfielder returns after four years away, having left United for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012.
Pogba, who has signed a five-year deal, added: "This is the right club for me to achieve everything I hope to."
Manager Jose Mourinho said the France international could be "the heart of the club" for the next decade.
United will pay the Italian champions 105m euros for Pogba, plus five million euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses, and other costs, including five million euros if Pogba signs a new contract.
The fee surpasses the £85m Real Madrid paid Tottenham for Wales forward Gareth Bale in 2013.
The announcement was made by United just after 00:30 BST on Tuesday, with a glossy video showing the player - with a red devil marked into his hair - emerging from the shadows.
It was followed by a series of sponsor videos, including one with English rapper and grime artist Stormzy, whose most successful song to date is 'Shut Up'.
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Pogba, who helped hosts France reach the Euro 2016 final, has won the Serie A title in each of his four seasons at Juventus.
He is Mourinho's fourth signing at United, after Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Armenia forward Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
It is the first time in 20 years an English club has set a world-record transfer fee, after Newcastle United paid £15m to sign England striker Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers.
Pogba joined United from French club Le Havre in 2009 as a 16-year-old, but made just seven appearances before his contract expired in July 2012.
He has made 178 appearances for Juventus, scoring 34 goals, and helped the club reach the 2015 Champions League final.
The Serie A side had offered him a new contract, while Real Madrid were also interested in signing him.
Pogba said his mother told him he would return to Old Trafford and that it was his "destiny".
Speaking to MUTV, he added: "It was like I'd just come back home. I just went for a holiday."
Pogba said he had spoken to Mourinho "a few times", as well as talking to France team-mates who had worked under the former Chelsea boss.
"He gave me energy, he gave me positivity," said Pogba. "They all told me he's the coach for me - he will make me improve a lot and make me work harder."
In a series of messages to Juventus supporters on social media, Pogba said: "Goodbye means nothing, it is the time we spent together that matters. I will bring with me a piece of you and leave you a little piece of me."
The move has rumbled on all summer, with the back pages of the newspapers featuring reports of deals done, deals delayed, counter-bids from big-club rivals, denials and intrigue over agent's fees.
At Mourinho's first Old Trafford news conference on 5 July, he said he wanted to sign four players and had secured three. Many believed the fourth was Pogba.
It has taken more than a month since then for the Portuguese to get his man.
On 9 July, United declared their interest but there were rumours the player preferred a move to Real Madrid.
Following's France's Euro 2016 final defeat by Portugal, Pogba went on a long holiday to the USA.
His agent Mino Raiola said a number of clubs were interested in his client and continued to deny a deal with United had been agreed.
On Saturday, Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri summoned Pogba to training, but just a day later United announced the player would have a medical - and on Monday he arrived in Manchester.
But it took until the early hours of Tuesday for the deal to finally be announced, a delay Pogba called "annoying".
Writing on Instagram he said: "This transfer took so long because it was a huge decision and involved lots of thinking and work."
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Pogba claimed he left the club "frustrated" and "disgusted" because former manager Sir Alex Ferguson did not play him. He gives his full reasons in the video above.
Ferguson said he "distrusted" Raiola, and alleged an agreement with Juventus had already been made.
United took the unusual step of announcing the deal at 00:36 BST on Tuesday.
The club say that is when the deal was done and they did not want to hold the information in case the news was broken elsewhere.
It has been noted the time would coincide with morning commuters in the Far East, where United say they have 300 million supporters, and early evening in North America, the world's most lucrative commercial market.
"That is a little bit of a red herring," said Kevin Roberts, co-founder of SportBusiness Group.
"There doesn't seem to be any commercial advantage to timing an announcement in either of those markets ahead of the UK.
"In south-east Asia it would have generated a whole load of social media traffic. In North America there would be a massive amount of excitement amongst football fans generally. But while they have the information there is very little they can do to monetise it."
The Italian giants thanked Pogba for "four years of triumphs lived together", which included nine trophies in total.
They released a statement 'Merci Paul', which said Pogba would remain "etched in the collective imagination".
It also said the club had made 72.6m euros (£61.9m) profit from the deal, after various deductions including wages and "related charges".
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Match of the Day presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker tweeted: "The signing of Pogba by Man Utd is a watershed moment for the Premier League. First time a huge foreign star in his prime has come to England."
He added the wealth of the Premier League meant "more of the greats will come here and not just to Barca and Real Madrid".
When challenged about other big names such as Sergio Aguero, Alexis Sanchez, Yaya Toure and Angel di Maria, Lineker responded: "Either Barca cast-offs, not genuine superstars or built their reputation here."
Earlier, former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville had said: "I think it is a big fee, but the Premier League was losing players left, right and centre to Spain - all the grade A players.
"We couldn't entice players to come here and we couldn't keep them when we had the best ones. At least now it looks like we are signing a player who would be regarded as a top signing of the summer."
BBC Sport's Simon Stone
"A lot is being made of the timing of Manchester United's announcement that they had officially signed Paul Pogba. The official release came at 00:35 BST.
"United are adamant the timing was solely to do with when the deal was completed.
"But whilst the timing was not great in the UK, it was perfect for the USA, where it was early Monday evening, and the Far East, where it was peak commuter time.
"Last month, United visited China, where they estimate they have more than 100 million fans. In the Asia-Pacific region it is more than 300 million.
"With the club heading for annual revenues over £500m, the days when club announcements were timed to assist local media are well and truly over."
Hernan Crespo's £35.5m move to Lazio from Italian rivals Parma in 2000 was the last time a club other than Real Madrid broke the world record for a football transfer fee.
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Australian authorities have charged a woman in the northern city of Cairns with the murder of seven of her children and her niece.

Mersane Warria, 37, was charged while in hospital where she is being treated under guard for self-inflicted knife wounds, police say.
Post-mortem examinations are being carried out to determine the exact cause of the eight victims' deaths.
The four boys and four girls were aged between 18 months and 14 years.
Police found a number of weapons at the scene, including knives, which are being examined.
Officers said they were looking at various possibilities for the deaths, including suffocation.
The bodies were reportedly discovered by the mother's 20-year-old son arriving at the home on Friday morning.
Police have dismissed reports the family had been investigated by social services saying it was "not a problem house".
Memorials have sprung up outside the home in the Manoora district of Cairns.
A church service was held on Sunday morning to remember the children.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement it was an "unspeakable crime".
These were "trying days for our country", he added.


Derby County striker Nick Blackman is in talks about a loan move to Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The 27-year-old has not featured this season and has only started 12 games since joining from Reading on a three-and-a-half-year deal in January 2016.
Boss Gary Rowett told BBC Radio Derby: "We feel we need to get Nick playing some football for his own sanity.
"We will see what happens. He has only gone to speak to them and it might be that he doesn't want to go there."
Blackman's chances or playing look even more remote following the signing of winger Tom Lawrence from Leicester City.
Lawrence, 23, joined for an initial £5m fee on Tuesday and will be available to make his debut on Saturday when Derby are away against Bolton Wanderers.
The Wales international scored 11 goals in 36 games during a loan spell at fellow Championship side Ipswich in 2016-17.
Rowett added: "We have brought in one of the most attacking and exciting wingers in the division last season.
"We hope he can replicate that for us, not just this season but for seasons to come.
"Leicester didn't want to sell him but the fact Tom showed such a desire to come here and play some regular football tells a little bit about his character."
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Exeter head coach Rob Baxter admits his side are all but out of Europe after their Champions Cup defeat by Bordeaux.

The 13-7 loss means Chiefs have been beaten in all three of their matches and are 10 points behind group leaders Clermont Auvergne and can do no better than 15 from their remaining games.
"Three wins in the group last year were enough, but I can't see that happening.
"I would say it would be very tough for us, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to play for," Baxter said.
Exeter topped their pool last season after all four teams registered three wins and three losses.
"These games are very important, you've got to take them with a great deal of pride, as we saw with the way things wrapped up in our pool last season," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"We owe it to everybody else to work very hard and make sure we make Bordeaux have to fulfil a huge fixture next week and when we have Ulster here, I'm expecting us to really turn up and make sure that is a huge fixture and the same when we go to Clermont.
"We're not just going to throw the hat in and we're not just going to fulfil them as non-fixtures. Far from it, they're going to be very important fixtures and very important for us as a side, developing individual players and have us absolutely flying in the Premiership."


Former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with four more counts of historical child sexual abuse.

The 63-year-old ex-youth coach at Crewe Alexandra faces allegations relating to a boy between 1981 and 1982.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the charges followed an investigation by Cheshire Police.
Mr Bennell, who also had links to Manchester City and Stoke City, will appear via video link at South Cheshire Magistrates' Court on 13 March.
He is accused of four counts of indecent assault on a boy aged 11 to 12 years.
Earlier this week he was charged with eight counts of historical child sexual abuse - two counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 14, indecent assault on a boy aged under 16, and five other offences.
Mr Bennell previously appeared in court in January charged with eight separate offences of sexual assault against a boy aged under 16, between 1981 and 1986.
He pleaded not guilty at Chester Crown Court and was remanded in custody until a further hearing on 20 March.


League One leaders Sheffield United have signed MK Dons midfielder Samir Carruthers for an undisclosed fee.

The 23-year-old has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the Blades.
Carruthers, who started his career with Aston Villa, scored four goals in 94 league appearances for MK Dons.
"He is an attacking midfielder who can fit into a number of positions and we are looking forward to introducing him to our great group," boss Chris Wilder told the club website.
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Zimbabwe earned a 2-1 win away to Malawi in their opening Group L qualifier for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Cuthbert Malajila opened the scoring after 23 minutes but the hosts hit straight back and Davi Banda restored parity a minute later.
Zimbabwe's winner came seven minutes before the end when Khama Billiat (pictured) converted.
Victory is a huge boost for Zimbabwe following their problems over players' match fees that had put the fixture in doubt.
Zimbabwe coach Kalisto Pasuwa told BBC Sport after the match: "We put our problems aside and we got a win. We need to bring Zimbabwean people together to help improve our football.
"We wanted to put our country on the map. We are having problems but let's consider our country in terms of football."
The squad had initially refused to travel, citing concerns that they would not receive their money from the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa).
Walter Magaya, the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader, stepped in to cover the $42,000 needed to cover the trip to Malawi.
In Group D, Uganda also got off to a perfect start by beating visitors Botswana 2-0.
Both goals came after the break, with Geoffrey Massa opening the scoring on 55 minutes and Brian Umony making sure of the points by doubling the advantage 11 minutes later.
Angola made a strong start to their qualification campaign, beating Central African Republic 4-0 in their Group B opener.
Gelson struck the first goal on 36 minutes and the lead was doubled 11 minutes after the interval when Dolly Menaga slotted home from the penalty spot.
On 63 minutes Gelson grabbed his second goal and the win was completed in added time when Gilberto scored his side's second penalty of the game.
Nigeria made hard work of beating Chad, overcoming the visitors 2-0 but also losing Ogenyi Onazi to a 79th-minute red card.
Fuad Gbolahan Salami struck the opener for the 2013 champions on 63 minutes and the Super Eagles added a second goal only moments after Onazi was sent off,  Odion Ighalo winning a penalty and dispatching the kick himself.
It is a winning start in Group G for Nigeria but coach Stephen Keshi will be looking for his side to improve quickly - particularly given their failure to qualify to defend their title in Equatorial Guinea this year.
There was a worse result for another former champion, 2012 winners Zambia were held to a goalless draw at home to Guinea-Bissau.
The Chipolopolo were expected to ease past the visitors but have now given themselves plenty to do in Group E to make a recovery.
South Africa were also held to a surprising goalless draw at home by The Gambia in their Group M fixture in Durban.
This was The Gambia's first competitive match for two years, after their return to international football following a two year ban.
The match in Durban was delayed by four hours following the non-arrival of two match officials.
Cape Verde were emphatic 7-1 winners over Sao Tome and Principe in Group F.
The big-name stars were in form for Senegal, who eased past Burundi 3-1 in Group K. Swiss-based striker Moussa Konate, Stoke's Mame Biram Diouf and Southampton's Sadio Mane scored the goals for the Teranga Lions.
Algeria, the top-ranked African team, scored twice in each half for a 4-0 win over visitors Seychelles in Group J, with El-Arbi Hillel Soudani claiming two goals.
And there were also home wins for Burkina Faso - 2-0 victors over Comoros Islands - and Mali, who saw off South Sudan by the same scoreline.


Most Scottish football clubs have brought their finances under control, according to a report from accountants Begbies Traynor.

In their regular monitor of financial distress in football, they suggested lessons have been learned from Rangers' collapse.
It found only one club in Scotland's top three divisions was showing signs of financial distress.
Two years ago, the accountants found four clubs out of 32 in this position.
Ken Pattullo, a partner with the accountancy firm and an expert in business recovery from crisis, said his survey showed a dramatic improvement in financial health.
Mr Pattullo commented: "The Rangers saga has dominated the headlines for years and recent loans from Mike Ashley's Sports Direct have kept the club on the front pages again. But Rangers isn't technically the most financially stressed club in Scotland, as a result of the recent cash injection.
"Overall an increased wariness among the other big clubs to spend heavily on transfers for fear of being the next big failure, and general good business planning in the boardrooms, has stabilised what was a really dangerous situation for the sport in Scotland."
He added: "With a lack of money in the Scottish game, due largely to Rangers' enforced exit from the Scottish Premier League, and the ensuing dearth of TV money, clubs have been wisely cutting their cloth accordingly and have largely avoided splashing out on players in the last two or three transfer windows."
Measures of distress include large debts, winding up petitions, high court writs and serious court actions against clubs and warnings over late filing of accounts.
The report points out that average attendances across the Scottish Premier, Championship and Leagues One and Two are down by 5% since the previous Football Distress Report, a fall that is due in part to the recent boycott of Rangers games by disgruntled supporters.


The Formula 1 season ended on Sunday with a third consecutive victory for Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg, but it is important to remember how the year started.

There are now questions about just why Rosberg has hit this rich vein of form, but it has come at the end of a year that was owned outright by his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Unlike in 2014, when he retired from the first race of the season, Hamilton won in Australia in March and built up from there a momentum to which Rosberg had no answer.
The German had his moments but, generally speaking, Hamilton was in complete control of the season from Melbourne until he won the title in Austin in October with three races still to go.
It was the Lewis Hamilton show, and Rosberg was left looking punch drunk on the ropes.
Even when Hamilton made a mess of the first lap in Hungary and then made another important mistake later on in the race, Rosberg was unable to capitalise.
There was a point that afternoon when, had the positions remained as they were, Rosberg would have gone into the summer break leading the championship.
Instead, he got a cut tyre in a clash with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and ended up finishing behind Hamilton, who was only sixth himself.
Hamilton had some hiccups - he was deprived of victory in Monaco by a team strategy error, for example - but generally everything seemed to go his way.
The British Grand Prix, one of the better races of the year, was a good example. Hamilton survived an off-circuit moment early on when trying to pass the fast-starting Williams cars, and then made the perfect call on a tyre stop in late-race rain.
For a man who seems to feed off public adulation, winning that race in front of 120,000 fans could not have been a better result.
This period - and the title battle, such as it was - ended in Austin, when Rosberg lost the lead to Hamilton by running wide and Hamilton was able to seal the championship.
Hamilton's title victory was followed by three consecutive wins for Rosberg, whose run of consecutive poles is now at six.
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What we don't know now is whether Hamilton has switched off because of the emotion of achieving his ultimate goal of becoming a three-time champion, or whether Rosberg, having reached an all-time low in their personal battle, decided to stop over-analysing and just drive. Or whether it is a bit of both.
The bottom line, though, is that Hamilton was a hugely deserving champion, who out-performed his team-mate when it mattered, and Rosberg found his form only when the prizes had already been handed out.
What gets us excited about next year is the prospect of Rosberg being able to carry that momentum into 2016 and Hamilton staying on the back foot, and a close fight for the title as a result.
Hamilton tends to go off to the Colorado mountains for winter to rest, recuperate, train and prepare for the following season. But let's keep an eye on social media to see whether he pops up in other, more starry, places as well - as is his right and wont.
The lure of the other life he has - the one revolving around celebrity, fashion and music - is so addictive that it is very difficult for him to just walk the dog and cross-country ski and go to the gym.
Positive distractions are exactly that. It is not healthy to have only one focus all the time.
Humans are curious characters. Our desire to take on challenges and push boundaries is what created the world we live in today.
Racing drivers are no different. They need distractions. But you can only give 100% to one thing at a time.
It doesn't matter what you do away from the track as long as, when you're at it, you are fully focused and fit. If the two start to cross over, that's when it starts not to work.
It was no surprise Mercedes were able to build on their success of 2014. It is often the way in F1 - when a team finds a big advantage, they hold on to it for some time. Mercedes' domination was preceded by Red Bull's from 2010-13, which came not long after Ferrari's from 2000-4.
History would suggest Mercedes will again lead the way in 2016 but there is a lot to be excited about.
Ferrari are determined to continue their momentum after a year when, from time to time, they did threaten Mercedes.
On the driver front, there is a lot of exciting young talent, especially Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz at Toro Rosso.
Even McLaren, after a terrible year, showed signs of improvement in Abu Dhabi.
The big question mark right now is over Lotus. The current owners have been running that team close to insolvency for some time as they wait for Renault's expected takeover.
That has been delayed because of various hitches, including a dispute over commercial rights money.
And there will be other issues as well - Renault have been around long enough to know that taking over a team is only the beginning. The real work starts in assessing what you own and what you need to do with it.
If the Renault takeover doesn't happen, you have to worry about Lotus' future, and it's troubling that such a great team from the past is on the cusp of not being on the grid.
That's just one of many ways in which F1 seems to be a ticking time bomb right now - there are also ongoing discussions about rule changes, engines and so on.
But like a great Hollywood movie, when it comes to the time for action, someone counts down and it keeps on going. And the off-track intrigue adds an extra element as well.
It was ironic that we spent the weekend in Abu Dhabi at a £1.2bn government-funded facility at the end of a year in which various aspects of F1 in Britain have seemed under threat.
Most of the F1 teams are British-based, and as a result so are many of the people who work in it. F1 is the figurehead of a £9bn British industry which is the biggest influence on motorsport around the world.
And yet in the last few months F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has - for whatever reason - questioned the viability of the British Grand Prix, which is held on one of the sport's best and most historic circuits, and now it seems there are question marks about free-to-air television coverage in the UK as a result of the BBC's need to make savings.
My personal view is that if F1 allows itself to lose free-to-air television coverage in the UK, it will not only affect the popularity of the sport, and by extension the teams' ability to raise money to compete, but it will also reduce its exposure to the next generations of engineers and mechanics.
F1 has inspired people to enter a workforce that numbers tens of thousands of people - the drivers are just the lucky ones at the end of the rainbow.
I am proud to work for the BBC. I don't think I would have made it out of my home village of Twynholm if I had not been able to watch F1 on the BBC. Without it, there was no outlet for me to see Canada and Monaco and places like that.
Of course, the world has changed since then, but free-to-air television still reaches many more people than subscription and without it we would be moving into previously uncharted waters as far as F1 in the UK is concerned.
David Coulthard was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson.


Government finances recorded a £9.4bn in surplus in January, £0.3bn higher than the same month last year.

Boosted by self-assessment tax receipts, January is typically a strong month for government finances.
For the financial year-to-date, borrowing stands at £49.3bn, the lowest since the comparable period of 2008.
Economists say strong tax receipts mean the government could undershoot the forecast deficit of £68bn for the current financial year.
The forecast was made by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in November's Autumn Statement, although this estimate marked a sharp revision from the previous prediction of £55.5bn.
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Philip Hammond presents his Budget on 8 March, and the chancellor will base his budget calculations on updated figures on growth and borrowing supplied by the OBR.
In a statement, a Treasury spokesperson said: "We remain committed to returning the public finances to balance and building on our progress in reducing the deficit from 10% to 4% of GDP over the last six years."
Earlier this month, the EY Item Club economic think tank said that estimated borrowing for the 2016-17 financial year could be revised down to £65bn from the £68bn forecast made in the Autumn Statement.
"The OBR is likely to deliver some rare good news to the chancellor by revising down its forecast for public sector net borrowing in the current fiscal year," the EY Item Club said in its Budget preview.
"Unusually, tax revenues have been performing better than expected in recent months," it said.
Other forecasters are even more optimistic about the outlook for UK finances.
John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, thinks that borrowing for the financial year could be less than £60bn. As a result, the chancellor might have some room for extra spending in the Budget.
"Overall, the public finances now look in rather better shape than they did three months ago, and more in line with other data showing a relatively robust UK economy in the period since the Brexit vote.
"This should give the chancellor a bit more room in his Budget on 8th March to find extra money for priorities like the NHS and social care, and possibly also to alleviate the increase in business rates for the biggest losers from the coming revaluation in April."
Philip Hammond is not a man known for political surprises.
Spreadsheet Phil, as he probably doesn't like to be called, prefers to keep any rabbits that might be hopping around Whitehall stuffed deep in the Treasury's public spending hat.
So, anyone thinking that today's better news on the state of government's finances will lead to any Budget largesse is likely to be disappointed.
Those close to him are making clear, there may be some minor tweaks but there will not be major changes of direction on Budget day on 8 March.
Brexit is still, in the Treasury's mind, a risk to the economy that looms large and any buffers built up now are likely to be kept back for future rainy days - if they come - rather than be spent now.
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A business leader has accused the former owners of BHS of "lamentable failures", saying its collapse has fuelled public distrust of UK plc.

Simon Walker, head of the Institute of Directors (IoD), told the BBC that Sir Philip Green had a moral responsibility to the retailer's staff.
The IoD normally promotes the cause of business, but Mr Walker said there were still many unanswered questions.
Sir Philip is due to give his side of the story to MPs later this month.
It was announced on Thursday that the department store will be wound down with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs after efforts to find a buyer failed.
BHS, sold by Sir Philip last year for £1 to former racing driver Dominic Chappell, went into administration in April.
Mr Walker told the BBC's Today programme that the collapse of BHS "has the potential to be deeply damaging to the reputation of British business".
He said: "We spend a lot of time agonising about the loss of trust in the business community, and I think we can see why this is. I think there is a lamentable failure of behaviour and there are a lot of questions that need to be asked."
Asked if he could defend Sir Philip's handling of the company, Mr Walker replied: "No, I can't."
Sir Philip, he said, has "moral responsibilities" over the demise of the firm and plight of the pension scheme.
The billionaire owner of the Arcadia retail empire has been accused of taking money out of BHS while the pension fund sank deep into deficit.
Mr Walker said: "You can't just get yourself off the hook by selling a business to someone who's been bankrupt three times and is a former racing driver with no retail experience."
He acknowledged that "BHS was probably going to fail anyway", but added: "It's the manner of its failure and the fact that it ends up dumping huge liabilities on to the taxpayer that is a problem, and it is the lack of due diligence in selling it (to Mr Chappell)... something's wrong".
Two Commons select committees are holding hearings into the demise of BHS, and Sir Philip, Mr Chappell and other directors are due to give evidence later this month.
Sir Philip said on Thursday that he was "saddened and disappointed" by the biggest retail collapse since Woolworths in 2008.
A spokesman said the owner of the Topshop chain had hoped to see the company sold as a going concern.
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Arcadia advisers have previously said that the business was sold to a company, not an individual, and that they were presented with a credible business plan.
BHS's administrators Duff & Phelps said on Thursday that they had failed to find a buyer and that all 163 stores would be holding closing sales over the coming weeks.
The jobs of 8,000 members of staff are likely to go, while a further 3,000 jobs of non-BHS employees who work in the stores may also be at risk.
John Hannett, of the retail union Usdaw, said there were "serious questions about how we got to this position".
He told the BBC: "There are serious questions about the pension deficit, serious questions about why they [Duff & Phelps] were not able to find a successful business owner when we know a number [of potential buyers] expressed an interest. So we need to unravel how we got to this situation."
Duff & Phelps blamed "seismic shifts" in the retail sector for the collapse of the chain.
When BHS ran out of money it was taken over by administrators. Their job is to get the best possible outcome for the creditors - anyone it owes money too.
This covers everything from the big banks that loaned money, to suppliers, employees, shareholders and the taxman. Where they all rank is established by law.
At the front of the queue are the secured creditors: Arcadia Group, Sir Philip Green's retail empire, is owed about £35m. Barclays bank and two investment firms are owed around £89m.
They will all get paid off before the unsecured creditors. That includes the taxman, who was owed about £6m in unpaid VAT and taxes, suppliers to BHS, owed about £40m between them as of late February, and any redundancy payments owed to BHS employees.
Unsecured creditors will share in a dividend of many millions of pounds, it is understood. Even so, that sum will still be spread fairly thinly.
Hilco Retail Services has been appointed to assist in the process of winding down the BHS store network.
Hopes of rescuing the store chain had rested on a late offer from a company led by retailer Greg Tufnell and reportedly backed by Portuguese money.
Other bidders who failed to convince the administrators included a consortium led by Matalan founder John Hargreaves, as well as separate offers from Sports Direct's Mike Ashley and Poundstretcher boss Aziz Tayub.


There is only a "10% chance" of Kevin Pietersen playing for England again, says former captain Michael Vaughan.

Batsman Pietersen, sacked by England in February 2014, is considering returning to English county cricket in an attempt to win an international recall.
Surrey are the favourites among the six counties who are keen on signing the 34-year-old.
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"It's not more than a 10% chance he'll play for England," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"He's had fall-outs with the coach, he's had fall-outs with the managing director, he has fallen out with Alastair Cook, the captain.
"It's a long shot, particularly with this management.
"But if there is a bit of change, if he is scoring double centuries for Surrey and England continue to play badly, that drum will be getting beaten very loud."
Pietersen, who scored 8,181 runs in 104 Tests for England, released an autobiography in October in which he criticised England players and senior England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) figures.
National selector James Whitaker said at the time that there was "no way" Pietersen would return to the England team.
However, Colin Graves, who will succeed Giles Clarke as ECB chairman in May, said in March that the selectors "can't ignore" Pietersen if he "scores a lot of runs" for a county.
Vaughan, who captained England in 51 of his 82 Tests, told Test Match Special: "The carrot has been dangled. It's a tiny carrot.
"But there's quite a bit to go between playing for Surrey again and playing for England again.
"Cricket isn't getting many column inches in England - it would get plenty if he came back.
"If I was a selector, I wouldn't rule out his return."
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Pietersen has said he "absolutely" could work again with current England coach Peter Moores, despite the "irretrievable breakdown" of their relationship in 2009 which saw Pietersen quit after three games as captain.
If Pietersen, who is currently working as a broadcaster at the World Cup, is to play the full English domestic season, which starts on 19 April, he must be released from his Indian Premier League contract with Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Coach Tom Moody has approved his release, a decision which is expected to be finalised by the IPL on Wednesday.
England, who were knocked out of the World Cup in the first round, start a three-Test tour of the West Indies next month, and host New Zealand in two Tests starting on 21 May.
Since being sacked by England, Pietersen has had stints in the Australian Big Bash and Caribbean Premier League, but has not played domestic first-class cricket since June 2013.
As well as his £205,000 contract with Hyderabad, he is again scheduled to play for St Lucia Zouks in the Caribbean Premier League in June and July.


Craig Disley scored the only goal as Forest Green Rovers were denied the chance to go top of the National League with defeat by Grimsby Town.

Grimsby pressed to break the deadlock when Pat Hoban struck from range and Andy Monkhouse headed wide.
Darren Carter came close for the hosts but hit the side netting after rounding the Grimsby backline.
Disley headed home to seal three points with 19 minutes left when he converted Monkhouse's cross from the left wing.
Forest Green boss Ady Pennock told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
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"Obviously we're disappointed and I didn't think we tested their keeper enough, Stevie Arnold made three or four good saves, but the game should have been 0-0.
"I didn't think in the final third we were that great, but all credit to Grimsby they've done a good job on us and won the game 1-0.
"It's three points - we're not going to lose the title by losing today and we're not going to not get in the play-offs, so it's three points, that's all it is."
Grimsby manager Paul Hurst told BBC Radio Humberside:
"Second half we had to withstand some pressure without James McKeown really being called upon to make any real saves of note, but you know you're going to have to defend a lot of set plays into the box.
"You wondered with their record if they were going to get that late goal but thankfully we kept that clean sheet and sent a lot of fans home very happy.
"Automatic promotion is still a big ask. Its two teams we've got to catch and they don't have to play each other."


A mortar bomb found by police in County Tyrone on Saturday was "an attempt to kill police officers," according to police.

Searches began in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Townsend Street/Cemetery Road area in Strabane.
The clear-up operation ended on Sunday at 20:30 BST.
A number of elderly people had to leave their homes and a graveyard was closed.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland's district commander Supt Mark McEwan said: "We received information about a bomb of some sort just after midnight on Friday.
"This bomb was placed in a graveyard and positioned where it could be used to attack passing police patrols.
"The bomb was left with the intent to kill police officers. It could have killed anyone passing by.
"There was a complete disregard for the community. Anyone with information should come forward.
"No one has claimed responsibility. One line of inquiry is violent dissident republican activity."
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers condemned those behind the incident and said "terrorists will never succeed".
"The fact that those responsible were prepared to use a graveyard shows once again the contempt in which they hold the community," she said.
One man told BBC Radio Foyle he was angry that he could not get in to the graveyard.
"My wife died three years ago and I visit her grave every day," he said.
"I tried to get up five or six times but I was turned away every time. It's uncalled for. I can't even pay my respects."


Poor weather conditions have hampered efforts to find the black box from the Irish coastguard helicopter that crashed into the sea off County Mayo.

Rescue teams picked up a signal from the Rescue 116 helicopter near Blackrock Lighthouse on Wednesday.
They are searching for three crewmen still missing after the helicopter crashed at about 01:00 on Tuesday.
A fourth crew member, Captain Dara Fitzpatrick died in hospital after she was recovered from the sea on Tuesday.
The search for chief pilot Mark Duffy and winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith continues.
Irish chief air accident investigator Jurgen Whyte described the location of a signal as "hugely significant" and said he hoped the recorder was in or near the helicopter wreckage.
"To get the signal is the big thing," he told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
"We are now in what would be described as a football pitch and somewhere within that football pitch there is a very small tweeting, chirping sound and as we move around that field we hope to get closer and closer to it.
"The likelihood is that the three missing persons may be within that area as well - so our focus is still on recovering the three crew members and we believe that by finding the recorder that will bring us closer to that goal."
Accident investigators from the UK have joined the search for the black box with specialised equipment to assist the operation.
The Irish Navy, RNLI, police divers and fishing boats are searching the coast off Mayo.
Captain Robert McCabe, Director of Operations and Navigation with the Commissioners of Irish Lights, said all the lighthouses in the area were in "full working order" on the morning of the incident.
Capt McCabe added that aids to navigation at Blackrock Lighthouse were functioning properly at the time of the crash.
The Irish coastguard asked the Irish Defence Forces to provide top cover for the fatal rescue mission at 22:06 on Monday, but its fixed-wing aircraft were not available, so Rescue 116 was deployed instead.
The Irish Defence Forces added that at 01:45 on Tuesday, the Irish Air Corps logged an emergency request from the Irish coastguard "to provide an aircraft to conduct a search for a missing helicopter, Rescue 116".
"The Air Corps initiated its recall plan and as a result was able to offer a Casa CN235 maritime patrol aircraft.
That plane took off from Casement Aerodrome south of Dublin shortly before 04:30
Rescue teams are using sophisticated underwater equipment which picks up a faint chirp from the locator beacon on the flight recorder.
It's in water about 40m deep and only about 50 or 60m from Blackrock which is a tall, rocky island topped by a lighthouse about 10 miles off the Mayo coast.
The next stage is to pinpoint its exact location and then attempt to recover the device either by using an underwater robot or dive teams.
There are two black boxes, one which records the engine and flight data and the other which captures the voice and radio communications and investigators hope they'll be able to retrieve the data to find out what happened in the final moments of the flight.
The water conditions are described as difficult, there are very strong currents and the weather today could impede the search with large swells forecast
The Irish naval ship, LÉ Eithne, is helping to co-ordinate the ongoing search and rescue operation.
On Wednesday, civil defence volunteers carried out searches along the shore.
Irish Transport Minister Shane Ross visited Blacksod in County Mayo and spoke to relatives of the crew.
"It's a very, very devastating experience for them as can be expected," he said.
The Dublin-based helicopter crew had been assisting colleagues from Sligo in a rescue operation on a UK fishing vessel about 150km (95 miles) west of Eagle Island.
They lost contact at about 01:00 local time on Tuesday on a refuelling journey to Blacksod.
Capt Fitzpatrick was the mother of a young son and the most senior pilot with CHC which runs the contract to provide search and rescue services in the Republic of Ireland.
R116 from Dublin was sent to help the Sligo aircraft communicate with the base at Malin, as the fishing boat was too far out for the first helicopter to stay within communication range.
The Sligo crew picked up the fisherman, who had a serious hand injury, and transferred him to hospital.
Shortly afterwards, communication was lost with the Dublin-based aircraft.
Conditions were described as good when the helicopter lost contact on its final approach to Blacksod refuelling depot.
It is the second fatal accident involving Irish Coastguard crew members over the past six months.
In September 2016, volunteer Coastguard Caitriona Lucas died while assisting in a rescue operation off the County Clare coast.
The mother-of-two was one of three crew members on board a rigid inflatable boat which flipped over during a search for a man near cliffs at Kilkee.
Irish coastguard helicopters have been used for a number of operations in Northern Ireland.


The influential head of Google, Eric Schmidt, has called for civilian drone technology to be regulated, warning about privacy and security concerns.

Cheap miniature versions of the unmanned aircraft used by the military could fall into the wrong hands, he told the UK's Guardian newspaper.
Quarrelling neighbours, he suggested, might end up buzzing each other with private surveillance drones.
He also warned of the risk of terrorists using the new technology.
Mr Schmidt is believed to have close relations with US President Barack Obama, whom he advises on matters of science and technology.
"You're having a dispute with your neighbour," he told The Guardian in an interview printed on Saturday.
"How would you feel if your neighbour went over and bought a commercial observation drone that they can launch from their backyard. It just flies over your house all day. How would you feel about it?"
Warning of mini-drones' potential as a terrorist weapon, he said: "I'm not going to pass judgment on whether armies should exist, but I would prefer to not spread and democratise the ability to fight war to every single human being."
"It's got to be regulated... It's one thing for governments, who have some legitimacy in what they're doing, but have other people doing it... it's not going to happen."
Small drones, such as flying cameras, are already available worldwide, and non-military surveillance were recently introduced to track poachers in the remote Indian state of Assam.
The US and Israel have led the way in recent years in using drones as weapons of war as well as for surveillance.
America's Federal Aviation Administration is currently exploring how commercial drones, or unmanned aircraft systems, can be safely introduced into US airspace.


Two people have been charged with using a drone to send phones and cannabis into a Kent prison.

Ingrid Edwards, 25, from Charlton, and Daniel Lee Kelly, 37, from Grove Park, south London, are both accused of two counts of sending prohibited items into HMP Swaleside in Eastchurch.
It is alleged the items were sent into the jail between 16 March and 25 April.
Ms Edwards, of Wolfe Crescent, and Mr Kelly, of Amblecote Meadows, appeared before Medway magistrates on Tuesday.
They are due to appear before Maidstone Crown Court on 24 May.


Author Harper Lee has started a non-profit company to produce a play of her iconic book To Kill a Mockingbird in her hometown of Monroeville, after a dispute was set to end the show.

Licensing firm Dramatic Publishing had not extended the performance rights for the production, so Lee stepped in with Mockingbird Company.
It will produce the play from 2016, giving proceeds to local communities.
Dramatic Publishing said on its Facebook page it was "thrilled".
It added: "We are also happy to announce that the play will be performed by Mockingbird Players, who have acted this American classic so well for so long. We believe that this is the best way (from the stage) to celebrate Ms Lee's masterpiece throughout the greater Monroeville area."
A Facebook page called Save Monroeville's To Kill a Mockingbird play had been campaigning for the play to stay in Monroeville.
Comments on the Facebook page included Johnny Johnson saying: "Thank you Miss Harper Lee , you have made Monroe County proud," and Meagan McDonald adding: "Thank you for working towards an agreement!! What a blessing for Monroeville!!"
Performances for the play for this month and next are sold out, boosted by excitement over the upcoming publication of Lee's second book, Go Set a Watchman. It will be the 88-year-old American author's first release since the 1960s.
The show has been staged by the Monroe County Heritage Museum for years, despite it being involved in legal disputes with Lee, 88, in the past. She sued the museum in 2013 for selling Mockingbird souvenirs in its shop, after it had opposed her application for a federal trademark for the title of her book.
The dispute has since been settled.
To Kill a Mockingbird, which explores issues of race, class and the loss of innocence, was published in July 1960 and has sold more than 40 million copies globally. It won a Pulitzer Prize and became an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck two years later.
Go Set a Watchman was written before Mockingbird, and features many of the same characters, with an adult Scout Finch returning to her native Alabama from New York to visit her father, lawyer Atticus Finch.
Written in the mid-1950s but shelved on the advice of her editor, it will be released on 14 July.


British Cycling chiefs will face questions from MPs over the use and policing of therapeutic use exemptions, The Times newspaper reports.

TUEs, which allow athletes to take prohibited drugs on medical grounds, have been brought into the spotlight by the Fancy Bears hackers.
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Laura Trott were among the British cyclists to have their TUE data leaked.
Wiggins says his TUEs were to combat hay fever.
The 36-year-old took powerful anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone before his 2012 Tour de France victory, as well as the 2011 Tour de France and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
All of the British athletes whose use of TUEs was revealed have denied they were seeking any sporting advantage, insisting they were issued for genuine medical needs.
Wiggins told the BBC's Andrew Marr in an interview in September that he sought TUEs to "put himself back on a level playing field".
However, Froome, who was Wiggins' team-mate at Team Sky, and former Team Sky doctor Prentice Steffen have questioned whether Wiggins' treatment was appropriate for pollen-induced hay-fever.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by either British Cycling or Team Sky, who Wiggins rode for before 2015.
"As part of the inquiry into doping, the select committee wants to look at the ethics of the use of TUEs and the way this is policed by British Cycling," culture, media and sport select committee chairman Damian Collins told The Times.
"We can ask British Cycling about any incidents in the past where we believe it is important how the governing body oversees their sport."
The committee could also question British Cycling officials over allegations that one of its staff delivered a medical package to Team Sky in France on the day Wiggins won the Criterium du Dauphine in La Toussuire.
The claims, made by the Daily Mail newspaper, are being investigated by the UK Anti-Doping Agency.
A British Cycling spokesman said: "We welcome any opportunity to support anti-doping efforts."


An unmarked police cyclist is taking to Edinburgh's streets to highlight the space cars should give bikes on the road.

Drivers who get too close to cyclists could end up in court on a charge of dangerous or careless driving.
Those caught too near will be advised that bikes should be given as much room as cars. Evidence will also be captured via a bike-mounted camera.
The scheme could be repeated across the country.
Police officers believe many people are put off cycling on Edinburgh's streets because of the fear of other vehicles coming too close when they overtake.
PC Dominic Doyle, of Police Scotland, said: "A lot of drivers see a person on a bicycle riding on the road in a cycle lane and don't consider that passing them closely puts all road users in danger.
"It could constitute careless or even dangerous driving and you would fail your driving test for that.
"Those drivers that we stop during this operation will be shown how closely they passed the unmarked officer by standing on our specially-designed mat.
"You should allow at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car when passing a person on a bicycle, giving consideration to the maximum speed limit and time and distance available to you."
A total of 398 cyclists have been injured in collisions in the capital over the past two years, including 62 seriously. One has died.
Keith Irving, Cycling Scotland chief executive, said: "Operation Close Pass is a welcome new initiative by Police Scotland to improve road safety.
"Education and enforcement are essential to making safer roads for everyone, whether we are cycling, driving or walking.
"This initiative is one of the many we need to take to tackle the increase in serious injuries amongst people cycling."
Ch Supt Andy Edmonston, head of road policing for Police Scotland, said: "We are constantly working to make Scotland's roads safer for everyone, and I am very pleased to see this innovative approach being piloted in Edinburgh where a large number of people cycle to commute and for pleasure."


Budget cuts at Southampton City Council could result in nearly 200 job losses.

A report due to go before the authority's cabinet on 15 July is proposing to make the cuts to cope with "a significant funding shortfall".
The proposed cuts would see 195 job losses, 47 of those posts are already vacant according to the authority.
The plans could also see the closure of Woodside Lodge care home and cuts to services for those with learning disabilities.
A library review is also under way with a formal consultation for both service users and affected staff expected in the autumn.
Deputy leader, Labour's Stephen Barnes-Andrews said: "We have a clear vision for where we want to be in 2017, but to get there we have to change the way we work and make some difficult decisions.
"Any changes we make will be focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for our residents."
The report highlights the likely gap that will be faced for 2015-16, is estimated at more than Â£30m.
Councillor Royston Smith, leader of the Conservative group, said: "This announcement is betrayal. A betrayal of all those workers who were promised their jobs were safe with Labour and a betrayal to all those people who voted Labour after being promised services would be protected.
"In two years in office Labour has refused to share services and accommodation, outsource to protect services and share management roles with other public sector bodies.
"There is so much more that could have been done before sacking hundreds of workers, cutting support to disabled residents and closing care homes."
In a statement, Unite described Mr Smith's claim of betrayal as "a joke" and said it was the government that was "betraying the people of Southampton by slashing funding, forcing councils to do their dirty work".
It added it was opposed to any cuts that affect jobs and services to the vulnerable.
"Job losses and outsourcing is not the answer," it said, adding: "If cuts carry on at this rate we fear there will be no council left by 2020."
It added the joint unions had "defeated" cuts to the service in 2012 and would support campaigns against these new cuts.


Mark Wahlberg, star of the film Deepwater Horizon, says it is a tribute to the people who lost their lives in the 2010 disaster.

The explosion on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico led to one of the world's worst environmental catastrophes.
At the film's world premiere in Toronto, Wahlberg was joined by Mike Williams, the rig worker he plays on screen.
"It's a character-driven piece," Wahlberg said.
"It's an action movie but it's about the people that lost their lives and the heroes on these drill rigs. None of them want any credit and they certainly don't like the title of hero."
Wahlberg described Mr Williams, who acted as an adviser on the film, as "a very humble guy".
"He was just doing his job and everything he could to help others and to survive.
"I certainly view him as a hero and think the things that he did were extremely courageous.
"For him to be able still be able to relive it with us to make sure it was as accurate as possible takes a special individual."
The cast includes Kurt Russell as Deepwater Horizon rig manager Jimmy Harrell, Gina Rodriguez as rig worker Andrea Fleytas and John Malkovich as a BP executive.
The Deepwater Horizon rig, owned by Swiss company Transocean and leased by BP, was drilling a deep well about 40 miles (65 km) off the Louisiana coast when it suffered the deadly blowout on 20 April 2010. Eleven people were killed.
The rig itself sank while millions of barrels of crude oil gushed into the ocean. It took 85 days to stop the leak permanently.
Actress Kate Hudson plays Mike Williams' wife, Felicia, who watches the tragedy unfold on her TV at home.
Hudson told the BBC that director Peter Berg had taken care to focus on the human element of the story.
The actress had the real Felicia Williams on set to help her with her role.
"There's a lot of post traumatic stress that happens after something like that. It's a scary and sad experience," she said.
Wahlberg added: "The audience are going to see something that's extremely moving and emotional and a tribute to the 11 people who lost their lives."
Deepwater Horizon is released in UK cinemas on 29 September.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs until 18 September.
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Pembrokeshire has been chosen to test a new £5.8m wave energy project.

The wave technology company Wave-tricity will develop and test a new device called the Ocean Wave Rower.
The two-year project has received £4m of EU funding and will generate clean energy by capturing the natural motion of sea waves.
It is expected to lead to the creation of jobs in engineering and operations with Wave-tricity, as well as opportunities for local businesses.
Matthew Fairclough-Kay, managing director at Wave-tricity, said: "Everyone on the team is looking forward to starting operations in Pembrokeshire and bringing the prospect of clean wave energy a step closer to commercial success."


Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is in a coma at his Tripoli home in Libya, it is being reported.

CNN said Megrahi appeared to be "at death's door" in the care of family. He is technically on licence but his whereabouts were thought to be unknown.
Megrahi was freed from a Scottish prison in 2009 on health grounds. There have been calls for him to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US.
But Libyan rebel leaders have said they do not intend to allow his extradition.
Megrahi had been jailed in 2001 for the bombing of a US plane over Lockerbie, with the loss of 270 lives, before he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and freed.
Scottish officials had tried to contact him following the rebel advance into Tripoli.
Megrahi technically remains a Scottish prisoner released on licence and is obliged to remain in regular contact with East Renfrewshire Council.
On Friday, the Scottish government said he had not been due to contact them for some time yet but social workers from East Renfrewshire Council had been trying to contact him.
After reports that Megrahi had been found, the government and council issued a statement saying they had been in contact with his family and his licence had not been breached.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the fighting and disorder in Tripoli had made it harder to keep track of him.
"His life does appear to be drawing to a close, he's in a coma," he said.
CNN reported on Sunday that Megrahi was "comatose" and "near death... surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip" and not eating.
"We just give him oxygen, nobody gives us any advice," Megrahi's son, Khaled, told the US broadcaster.
"There is no doctor. There is nobody to ask. We don't have any phone line to call anybody."
CNN reporter Nic Robertson said he last saw Megrahi two years ago and described his appearance as "much iller, much sicker, his face is sunken... just a shell of the man he was".
Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988.
The victims of the bombing were mainly US nationals and the decision to release him, taken by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, sparked an angry reaction in the United States.
The former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told BBC Radio 5 live that Megrahi should have been given the death penalty and was lucky to be alive.
Mr Bolton said Megrahi should be in jail and called for him to extradited.
"To me it will be a signal of how serious the rebel government is for good relations with the United States and the West if they hand over Megrahi for trial," he said.
"He killed 270 people. He served roughly 10 years in jail before he was released by British authorities. Do the math - that means he served roughly two weeks in prison for every person he killed. Two weeks per murder. That is not nearly enough."
Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband Michael was one of those killed, told BBC Radio 5 live that Megrahi's death would bring some regret to the victims' families.
"He was one person in a long line of people who I'm sure was responsible for the bombing and when he dies, some of the knowledge about what happened will go with him," she said.
She added that she hoped the rebels' National Transitional Council would be committed to finding out what happened.
Bob Monetti, the father of another victim, said Megrahi was a source of embarrassment to Scotland but "sort of irrelevant".
"Mr Megrahi just probably put the bomb on the plane, but somebody else made it, and somebody else told him to do it, somebody else planned the whole thing out," he told the BBC.
"I'd like to find out who those people were, and find out a lot more of the details about what went on and why they did it."
But Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the blast, said he believed Megrahi was innocent and hoped he was getting decent pain relief at home with his family.
"I feel extremely resentful that the murder of my lovely elder daughter Flora should be embedded in what I'm satisfied is in fact a tissue of lies which led to a politically useful outcome," he said.
Mohammed al-Alagi, justice minister for the new leadership in Tripoli, earlier refused to countenance handing Megrahi over.
"We will not hand over any Libyan citizen to the West," he said.
"And from points A, B and C of justice, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has already been judged once, and will not be judged again.
"We will not hand over any Libyan nationals, it's Gaddafi who hands over Libyan nationals."
The National Transitional Council is now recognised by Britain as the sole governmental authority for Libya.


Thames Water must "up their game" after burst pipes caused three floods in London in a week, London's mayor said.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and businesses were shut when major flooding hit Stoke Newington, Blackheath and Islington.
Sadiq Khan said people were "rightly furious it appears lessons are not being learnt".
Thames Water has said a "full investigation" will take place "to reduce the risk of further disruption".
Mr Khan said the "huge damage" caused was "a devastating thing to happen in the run-up to Christmas".
"It is right that Thames Water have launched a full investigation, and residents and business must now get full compensation," he said.
Director Bob Collington told the BBC the firm had spent "about Â£1bn a year upgrading our network" but "clearly the events of the last few weeks point to the fact that we need to do even more".
Some business owners have accused the company of "incompetence" over the floods.
Gonen Ozer, who owns two businesses in Stoke Newington, said the mains had been leaking for several days but the water firm had only "patched it up temporarily".
"I can only describe Thames Water's attitude as reckless, irresponsible and totally unprofessional", he said.
Emily Oliphant was in her Blackheath flooring shop when water started pouring into the building and said the damage caused was "unbelievable".
She accused Thames Water workers of "incompetence" as it took "four or five hours" until the water stopped.
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Mr Collington said he was "absolutely devastated about the damage" but denied the company was unprofessional.
He said Thames Water had been "in the process of applying for the permits" to close the road in Stoke Newington to fix the mains when it burst.
With regards to Blackheath, Mr Collington explained that it can take "several hours to shut down one of these large pipes" to reduce disruption to other companies.
"We understand fully the consequences of getting it wrong and we take that really, really seriously," he said.


Referee Neil Swarbrick appeared to send off the wrong player in the second minute of Manchester City's 3-0 Premier League win against West Brom.

Defender Craig Dawson fouled Wilfried Bony on the edge of the area, but Gareth McAuley was shown the red card.
Last month Sunderland's Wes Brown was sent off against Manchester United, a dismissal later overturned by the Football Association on appeal.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis spoke with Swarbrick at half-time.
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Pulis, who was clearly frustrated with the official's decision, waited until Swarbrick had left the pitch but continued to speak as they disappeared into the dressing room area.
BT Sport's Darren Fletcher said on commentary during the match that the referee told a BT Sport reporter at half-time that it was a case of mistaken identity.
Fletcher added that the first number the official saw during the incident was McAuley's 23, rather than the 25 of Dawson.
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Danny Mills called it a "ridiculous decision".
"We need to hear from the officials, because I don't understand what was going through the referee's mind," he said.
"I'm sorry but that is just a horrendous decision. One player has got Dawson on his back, and the other has McAuley.
"Does the referee not have the common sense to just say to one of his officials, have I got the right man? They are all mic'd up."
Brown was sent off by referee Roger East in his side's 2-0 defeat against the Red Devils, despite television pictures showing that John O'Shea had fouled United striker Radamel Falcao.
The FA upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal and neither Brown nor O'Shea had to serve a suspension.


When Ariel Sharon died in January this year, eight years after a stroke, he'd survived for longer than would probably be expected had he lived elsewhere in the world.

Since 2005 it's been illegal in Israel to turn off ventilators when a person is dying or has no hope of recovery. The result is that large numbers of patients spend years on life support, many of them unconscious.
After surviving Auschwitz as a small child only to find herself without a family home after the war, Hava, who's now 80, made a promise to herself.
When she grew up she would have her children young, provide them with a warm home and then after they'd left she and her husband, Schmail, would have a second childhood and this time, it would be a happier one.
For a while it was, but then her husband developed heart disease and one day, at the age of 71, he collapsed.
For the past 12 years he has lain in a bed in a converted psychiatric hospital up in the hills on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Like all the other patients here, he lies silently with a large tube connected to a hole in his throat that breathes air into his lungs.
Hava spends six hours a day at his bedside. "I try to talk to him," she tells me. "I let him know he's not alone."
He's unconscious, but she thinks the one voice he recognises is hers. "I try to keep him alive," she says. "So long as he has a warm hand that's something."
A few patients are propped up on pillows. The odd one stares into the distance, but for the most part each bay contains people who look as though they're sleeping, somehow suspended in limbo between life and death.
At the nurse's station there's a CCTV monitor where all 20 patients can be viewed on one screen and you see very little movement - just sleeping people.
In most countries a ward like this would not exist, and doctors and families in discussion together, might have made the decision to turn off Schmail's ventilator to allow him to die.
But since 2005 this has been illegal in Israel and is considered to be killing the patient, even if they are already dying.
The law in Israel was informed by Jewish tradition, but talking to families of other faiths in the hospital here, it seems to have become a cultural viewpoint too.
Moving on
When I visit the children's ward there are the colourful mobiles, wall friezes and the tinny sounds of piped nursery rhymes. There are 22 children here and it feels like any other children's ward - barring the absence of much noise.
Some of these children survived drowning, others had near-fatal accidents. It's as though they've been put down for an afternoon nap, except that they don't wake up. And over the years they grow of course.
I meet Eli Cohen whose daughter was only three years old when she choked on her own vomit during the night, starving her brain of oxygen.
He tells me she was a "very, very sweet girl", but there's there very little chance of recovery.
Israel's position on keeping ventilated patients alive is particularly unusual when patients are not stable on a ventilator but dying on one.
When a patient is dying decisions have to be made, both by the medical team and the family, about what treatment they receive.
The Jewish faith draws a clear distinction between withholding and withdrawing.
Any act that hastens death is prohibited; so it follows that it is illegal to turn a ventilator off when a patient is dying, even if this would ease his suffering.
She's now 14 and looks like a teenager. Her sisters visit her every day to keep her up to date with the family events which she will never attend.
She lies in bed on a ventilator with limited movement. 'She can't even blink,' said Eli. 'But she does move a bit.'
"Exactly what she's thinking we don't know", her father says to me. As an ultra-orthodox Jew he says that he believes that what has happened to her must have occurred for a good reason, "But even now I sit next to her and cry," he says.
During this time Eli and his family have visited the ward regularly, updating her about their lives and bringing news from the outside world.
Despite any change in her condition, his daughter has progressed, growing from a young child into a teenager. In four years' time she'll be a young woman and moved to the adult ward.
The doctors seem to encourage a sense of hope. One tells me, "Hope for a miracle is a fundamental human trait".
I'm looking around the ward and another doctor comes up to tell me that a mother has heard that we're here and has requested that I come and speak to her adult son.
She thinks that having the BBC here might be enough to wake him up.  She looked expectant. I knew I was going to disappoint her.
She was from Georgia and spoke no Hebrew, but through a three-way translation she tells me, "I've been here all day and all night for eleven years."
Her son looks as though he was asleep and there seems to be flickering behind his eyelids, but he too is unconscious after a cardiac arrest.
Beside the bed an old folded mattress leans against the wall, alongside several giant checked shopping bags, a small fridge and a coffee machine.
Although she doesn't speak the same language as any of her the staff, his mother had made the ward her home.
She now lives at his bedside and her daughter who works in a shop nearby often visits too. His mother is determined not to leave his bedside in case he wakes up. My visit didn't have that effect.
Like Hava she continues to sit at her loved one's bedside. Hava says the whole experience has changed her.
She has learnt to live day by day and has some advice for me, "You can't live your life in the future. Do what you have to do now and not later."
Want to hear more? The radio programme 'When are we dead' will be broadcast on on the BBC World Service on Wednesday 24 September at 193 GMT..


Bristol City remain without midfielder Gary O'Neil (leg), but striker Milan Djuric is back in training.

The Bosnia-Herzegovina international is bidding for full match fitness after recovering from a hernia injury but is unlikely to start against QPR.
The visitors are without midfielder Jordan Cousins, who will miss the rest of the season with a quadricep injury.
On-loan winger Kazenga LuaLua is back in training after an ankle injury but is still a doubt for the visitors.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson told BBC Radio Bristol:
"We move into Friday after a good performance that was much desired against Wolves. Friday is going to be really, really important.
"If we can get a win, it really puts everybody else on the back foot, we'll claw another couple in and hopefully we'll push away as well.
"It is a massive game. I'm sure the players will give their all. We want to look ahead of us and make sure we overtake a couple of people, with Forest and Burton only a point ahead of us.
"Even QPR, six points ahead of us, if we beat them, we cut that gap to three points. That's really important. The more people we draw into it, the better."


Two-time Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington is launching an initiative that aims to get all children swimming 25m before they leave primary school.

Total Fitness in Wrexham will become the first centre in Wales to offer the Swim Stars programme, which Adlington started to help more children swim.
There are currently 21 Swim Stars swim schools in the UK and more than 3,500 children have been enrolled.
Adlington will be attending the launch on Saturday.
"Even though I retired from competitive swimming just over two years ago, I am still passionate about swimming and committed to helping more kids learn to swim," she said.


The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks have been extended by 188 square miles, with campaigners hailing a "historic day".

The park boundaries have grown within touching distance either side of the M6 motorway, creating a band of protected land across the north west of England.
Originally designated in the 1950s, the expansion of the borders aims to boost rural tourism.
The Yorkshire Dales has grown in size by 24%, with the Lakes increasing 3%.
The move, announced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in October, sees the Dales stretch to the north and west and the Lakes to the east and south.
Most of the Yorkshire Dales park is in North Yorkshire, but 28% of its land is now in Cumbria and 1% in Lancashire.
Despite the change in geography the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said the government had no plans to change the park's name, which was written on a designation order in 1954.
Lake District
Yorkshire Dales
Natural England first suggested the extensions in 2009, with a public inquiry launched in 2013.
After hearing more than 3,000 objections and representations, it was recommended the extensions be approved.
Mark Corner, from the Yorkshire Dales Society, said: "We're very excited, we have been working on this for many years and campaigned and lobbied wherever we can.
"Some of the boundaries were picked on an arbitrary basis in the 1950s, so to join it up makes an awful lot of sense. It now should be on everyone's bucket list."
The Friends of the Lake District charity said it was "a historic and very rare day".
Policy officer Alison Lax said: "These areas have always been special and valued in Cumbria, but now it adds a level of national recognition.
"It's unfinished business, as they really should have been part of the parks in the first place. The landscape's qualities are on a par with everything that was included in the parks previously."
The combined area of parks makes it the largest area of national park land in England, the charity said.
John Welbank, who runs a planning consultancy for rural businesses, said the move was a boost for tourism but would have a "negative impact on new start-ups".
"When they try and develop businesses and property, most people's attitudes will change drastically as they won't realise the planning implications until they come up against it," he said.
"There are implications for business development projects as it will become significantly harder."
3%
increase in the National Park's size
912
square miles. The new total land mass of the park. An increase of 27 sq miles
41,100 will now live inside the park's bounderies
300 extra people will now live within the park after the boundary changes
In the Yorkshire Dales, the extension means the number of farms in the national park has gone up 32% to 1090.
When the extension was announced, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) criticised the move, saying it ignored the views of farmers and landowners.
Greg Stephenson, from Hipping Hall hotel, Cowan Bridge, described the business now being inside a national park "a good thing".
He said: "Leck and Cowan Bridge have been overlooked by visitors because it's a beautiful area, but sits on the fringes between the old borders of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
"It will now become part of a distinct area which is recognised internationally."
On the topic of a small corner of Lancashire gaining a Yorkshire title, he said: "I'm sure there will be a few people around here who have a tongue-in-cheek moment, but I think most will be happy to be part of this well-established brand."
In the spirit of the age, and after much thought, I have now decided to start a petition to rename the Dales National Park (can't bring myself to use the Y word) as the 'Northern Powerhouse Park of the People'.
The powers that be have tried in vain for over a number of decades to rename parts of the Red Rose county.
I can only imagine the area to be added to the national park must be of a far superior standard to any of the current acres.
I have enlisted the help of a stout Red Rose fellowship and we march at dawn to dig the ditch and erect the fence to beat back the advance of our meddling eastern cousins.
Stephen Lowe, Lancashire Outdoors presenter for BBC Radio Lancashire


A benefits sanction map of the UK shows how claimants are being treated with cruelty, according to the homeless charity Crisis.

It said the map illustrates the "post code lottery" of sanctions - when claimants have their payments stopped.
And it warned that homeless people are being affected disproportionately.
However the government said that the number of people being sanctioned had actually fallen over the last year.
It said there were 170,000 fewer sanctions in the year to September 2014 than in the year before.
But in its report, Crisis claims the system is still deeply unfair.
It said sanctions rates varied between 15.4 per hundred claimants per month in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, and 1.8 per hundred in the Western Isles.
"Evidence is mounting of a punitive and deeply flawed regime," said Jon Sparkes, the chief executive of Crisis.
"Sanctions are cruel, and can leave people at severe risk of homelessness - cold, hungry and utterly destitute," he said.
Since April 2000, more than six million people have had benefits payments stopped, usually for failing to keep appointments, or demonstrating that they are otherwise not available for work.
The rules were tightened in October 2012, following the Welfare Reform Act.
Payments can be stopped for four weeks, or as much as three years, depending on how many times the rules are broken.
The sanctions also affect people claiming Employment Support Allowance (ESA).
The report - written for Crisis by Dr Kesia Reeve of Sheffield Hallam University - says that when sanction decisions are reviewed, half of them are overturned.
"The evidence at present is limited, but points clearly to a system that is more punitive than it is supportive," she said.
But the government has always argued that benefit sanctions act as an incentive to help people find work.
"The truth is that every day Jobcentre Plus advisers are helping people into work, with a record number of people now in jobs," said a spokesperson for the Department of Work and Pensions.
"Sanctions are only used as a last resort for the tiny minority who refuse to take up the support which is on offer."
However earlier this month, Nick Bowles, a Conservative minister in both the Department of Business and the Department for Education, was reported to have called for a re-think on the way benefits sanctions are applied.
He told his local newspaper, the Grantham Journal, that sanctions should be looked at after the election, although he later withdrew the remarks.
Crisis said that there was no correlation between the figures and bad behaviour by claimants.
However it did say that different policies by private sector companies delivering the Work Programme for the long-term unemployed might be a factor.
For example, sanctions rates in east London were much higher than in west London, reflecting different approaches by the service providers.
It said the overall picture was of a "chaotic system".


President-elect Donald Trump may have ruffled feathers in Beijing with criticism on trade and Taiwan, but he seems to have struck a chord with the Chinese public.

With the Year of the Rooster approaching, a Trump-inspired sculpture is on display at a shopping centre in Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
The designer told Chinese media he was inspired by both his iconic hairstyle and hand gestures.
The Lunar New Year falls on 28 January.
It is not the first time a resemblance has been spotted between the future leader of the free world and a bird in China.
A golden pheasant in a zoo in Hangzhou achieved brief internet fame in November after a visitor noticed that its swept-back blond hair and piercing blue eyes looked somewhat like Mr Trump's.
Beijing has grown increasingly critical of Mr Trump, who has appointed a fierce China critic to a senior trade post; spoken directly with Taiwan's president, in violation of the US's longstanding "One China" policy; and accused China of stealing an American underwater drone.
According to the Chinese zodiac, Donald Trump is a "dog", characterised as loyal, honest and suited to politics, though stubborn and prone to seeing the world as hostile.


Jermain Defoe grabbed his first international goal in four years and Jamie Vardy scored only six minutes after coming on as England defeated Lithuania in Sunday's World Cup qualifier.

They remain unbeaten in Group F but this was not an eye-catching display by Gareth Southgate's side.
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses the performances of the England players.
Joe Hart (goalkeeper) 6
One scare in the first half when Arturas Zulpa's header looped over him but largely untroubled. Made one smart second-half save.
Kyle Walker (right-back) 7
Real attacking threat and showed great pace going forward and in one defensive situation late on
Michael Keane (centre-back) 6
Another assured display. Poor opposition must be taken into account but good concentration and looks at home at England level.
John Stones (centre-back) 6
Good last-ditch clearance in the first-half. Looked composed and confident.
Ryan Bertrand (left-back) 6
Odd sloppy moment but has shown himself an ideal replacement for injured Danny Rose.
Eric Dier (holding midfield) 6
Solid and unspectacular. Like England.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (central midfield) 5
Very poor start and while the second-half brought improvement, a very strange selection ahead of Everton's Ross Barkley.
Raheem Sterling (attacking midfield) 6
Mixed bag. Set up Defoe's opener but still too wasteful.
Dele Alli (attacking midfield) 6
Took some heavy punishment from Lithuania in an attempt to test his temperament so was quieter than in Germany in midweek.
Adam Lallana (attacking midfield) 7
Excellent. Energetic, creative and a perfect subtle touch for Jamie Vardy's goal.
Jermain Defoe (striker) 8 MAN OF THE MATCH
He's still got it. Looked a threat for the hour he was on and fully justified his recall to England colours.
Substitutes:
Jamie Vardy (for Defoe 59 minutes) 6
Tucked away his goal neatly but finishing still a little wayward. Did exactly the job Southgate wanted from him.
Marcus Rashford (for Sterling 59 minutes) 6
Lively and full of fearless running.
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Health is the biggest single issue that could affect the way people vote in the assembly election, a BBC Wales poll has suggested.

One third of the people questioned said it was their main concern in the run-up to polling day in May.
Just under a fifth put jobs at the top of their list, while 14% said immigration was their priority.
Despite the priority given to health, 29% of respondents mistakenly thought it was run by the UK government.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) knew the Welsh government was responsible for the NHS.
The economy (11%), education (10%), Europe (4%) and crime (2%) were the other priorities of voters.
These were the findings of BBC Wales' annual St David's Day poll, carried out by ICM.
Laura McAllister, professor of governance at Liverpool University, said: "I think it's interesting that we've now seen a slight increase at least in understanding that the Welsh government makes the key critical decisions around health in Wales.
"I suspect that's actually as a result of some of the quite vitriolic attacks on the performance and the governance of the NHS in Wales that have come from the UK government.
"Also, there's been some policy differentials around junior doctors strikes that haven't happened in Wales because of a different approach.
"So I think that a majority of people understand the NHS is run by the Welsh government has increased is a good thing.
"But I think, on the other hand, there hasn't been any great rise in understanding that the Welsh government can do things differently."
On immigration, just under half of respondents (47%) thought the numbers moving from outside of the UK into Wales was too high, while 37% thought it was just about right and 8% thought it was too low.
Plans to give income tax powers to Wales were supported by just over half of those questioned (54%), with 42% saying only the UK government should have control.
On powers for the Welsh assembly, 43% said it should have more while 30% thought its current powers were sufficient.
At the other ends of the scale, 13% wanted to see the assembly abolished and Wales governed directly from Westminster, while 6% supported independence.
The survey had sobering news for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) due to be elected on the same day as AMs.
Nearly nine out of 10 people (89%) failed to name any of Wales' current PCCs - one in ten could name one commissioner, while only 1% could name two.
Wales has four PCCs: Winston Roddick (North Wales), Alun Michael (South Wales), Christopher Salmon (Dyfed-Powys) and Ian Johnston (Gwent).
Colin Rogers, professor of police sciences at the University of South Wales, said: "The previous election was really dogged by the fact that there was no significant debate, there was no significant awareness-raising of the role of commissioners.
"I think that needs to be embraced now to make people aware of what exactly commissioners do now and what their function can be in the future."
The last PCC elections in November 2012 saw a voter turnout in Wales of just under 15%.
ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults across Wales by telephone from 16 to 22 February 2016.


Scotland's communities secretary has called on the UK government to ratify the "Istanbul Convention" on combating violence against women and girls.

Angela Constance has written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd asking for a "clear timetable" for ratification of the Council of Europe convention.
The UK government signed up to the convention in June 2012, but is yet to formally ratify it.
A private members' bill on the topic has also been lodged at Westminster.
The UK government has previously said it was studying concerns about parts of the convention cutting across local legal jurisdictions.
Ms Constance, who is to lead a Holyrood debate to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, wrote to Ms Rudd asking her to commit to the Istanbul Convention and engage with the devolved administrations over it.
The Council of Europe convention states that "it is the obligation of the state to fully address" violence against women "in all its forms", take measures to prevent it, protect its victims and prosecute perpetrators.
It was written in April 2011, and while the UK government signed up to it the following year it is yet to ratify it.
In her letter to the home secretary, Ms Constance said the Scottish government "strongly support the principles and aspirations of the Istanbul Convention".
She wrote: "I know that both our governments share a commitment to ending violence against women and girls once and for all. We wish to see a clear timetable for ratification laid out."
Ms Constance added: "There is no more time for foot dragging. It has been more than four years since the UK government signed this important convention and two years since it came to force.
"The ratification of the Istanbul Convention would ensure a focus on the further work necessary to seek to end gender-based violence once and for all and I sincerely hope that we will hear back from the UK government with a positive response soon."
Marsha Scott of Scottish Women's Aid said the UK government "has within its grasp to make history" by ratifying the convention.
She said: "The Istanbul Convention is probably the very best piece of violence against women policy that has been written ever, anywhere. It is a blueprint for how we move from small change at the margins, services that are picking up too few people, too late, to a system that is designed to end domestic abuse and violence against women."
In February, MP Karen Bradley, then a Home Office minister, said there was an issue with part of the convention about "extraterritoriality", the issue of local legal jurisdictions.
She said when the issue had been clarified and relevant legislation passed, the government would ratify the convention.
Theresa May, who was Home Secretary when the UK signed up to the convention, was asked about it during her first session of questions to the prime minister in July.
She said: "It is important to deal with the issues of gender violence and domestic violence against women and girls. That is why the government have - I led this as Home Secretary - a strategy to deal with violence against women and girls.
"We have a good record on what we have done, for example, putting into operation domestic violence protection orders and the new coercive control offence, but there is always more to do and we will be doing that."
SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford has put forward a private members' bill at Westminster calling on the UK government to ratify the convention, which is due for its second reading later in the month.


Hundreds of thousands of people camped out overnight in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito, in wind and rain to secure a spot to see Pope Francis celebrate Mass on Tuesday.

The Pope is on the first leg of a three-country tour which will also take him to Bolivia and Paraguay.
On Monday an estimated 800,000 people attended the Mass Pope Francis celebrated in the city of Guayaquil.
It is his second visit to the region since becoming pontiff in 2013.
Pope Francis, who is from Argentina, has drawn huge crowds on his visits to the continent.
In 2013 three million people were estimated to have attended a Mass he celebrated on Copacabana beach in Brazil.
A Vatican spokesman said about half a million faithful lined the streets of Quito on Sunday, when the Pope arrived in the Andean country.
A Quito official said more than 300,000 people spent the night at the Bicentennial Park in Quito waiting for the Pope to celebrate Mass.
The official said more than 20 people had to be treated for hypothermia after a torrential downpour.
Abel Gualoto, a 59-year-old seafood vendor, told the Associated Press news agency that "the joy at seeing the Pope gives us the warmth we need''.
Later on Tuesday, Pope Francis is due to tour the Church of the Society of Jesus, one of the oldest and most ornate in Ecuador.
On Wednesday, he will fly to La Paz in Bolivia.
Concerns have been voiced that he could suffer from altitude sickness upon his arrival at the airport of El Alto, which lies at a height of 4,000m (13,100ft) above sea level.
Pope Francis had part of one lung removed after an infection when he was a child.
One of the symptoms of altitude sickness is shortness of breath.
According to Bolivian Culture Minister Marko Machicao, Pope Francis has requested to chew coca leaves while in Bolivia.
Coca leaves, the raw ingredient for cocaine, are used to combat altitude sickness.
The pontiff will not be travelling to his home country of Argentina on this trip, as according to the Vatican he wants to focus on some of the smaller and poorer countries of the region.
In September Pope Francis will travel to Cuba ahead of a trip to the US.
The pontiff is credited with helping to bring about last December's diplomatic thaw between the two countries.


A man in his 20s has died after being hit by a car while crossing a road in Kent on Christmas Eve.

The pedestrian, from Tyne and Wear, was struck by a Vauxhall Corsa on Crossing Boulevard in Dartford at 18:07 GMT.
The vehicle was located in Bexleyheath and a 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman from Dartford were arrested.
They are being held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of a crash and perverting the course of justice.
The victim died at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit have appealed for witnesses.
PC Jamie Woodhams said: "I would like anyone who saw the vehicle and has not yet spoken to police to come forward.
"The vehicle suffered windscreen and headlight damage and was driven away from the scene towards the M25."


A dentist who sparked "the biggest NHS patient recall in history" has been struck off.

A total of 55 allegations of malpractice against Desmond D'Mello were proven during a General Dental Council (GDC) misconduct hearing.
Secret filming exposed poor levels of cleanliness at the Daybrook Dental Practice, near Nottingham.
The footage prompted the recall of some 22,000 patients, 4,500 of whom were tested for blood-borne viruses.
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Of the 56 allegations D'Mello was accused of, all but one were were proven by the GDC.
The allegations included:
Gavin Scott, chair of the panel, said Mr D'Mello's behaviour was "fundamentally incompatible with being a dental professional".
He said his failings constituted "a contemptible circus of gravely hazardous practice which placed his patients at a serious risk of infection".
Caroline Surgey, who was D'Mello's dental nurse at the same practice admitted 27 allegations at the same hearing.
The 43-year-old has been allowed to continue to work as a dental nurse, but must accept conditions and work under close supervision.
During the hearing she said Mr D'Mello was cutting costs.
"He did not like me changing gloves all the time," she told the hearing.
"I was ashamed and I could see failures in all of it and if I saw that person I would think they were a really bad person," she added.
Mr D'Mello made the decision not to attend the hearing, nor to have legal representation.
In a statement to the panel, he said he was in "total shock" at the allegations, which he accused the NHS of handling in a "humiliating" manner.
Secret filming at the practice in 2014 prompted the recall of 22,000 patients.
NHS England said, of 4,526 patients who were tested following the recall, five were found to have hepatitis C.
Jonathan Green, of the GDC, said as well as not being able to practice as a dentist in the UK, dental regulators across Europe will be notified of the panel's decision.
"At no stage did Mr D'Mello demonstrate an understanding of the severity of the charges, such as by either admitting to any of his failings, or apologise to his patients," he said.
The surgery is now under new management.
Mr D'Mello was a dentist for nearly 38 years and began his own practice in 1980.
The practice in Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, is now under new management.


One of three Harris Tweed mills in Lewis could go into voluntary administration next week.

The Carloway Mill employs 27 people and provides yarn to 30 weavers.
A Chinese textile company invested in the business in 2013 but hopes of expanding into the Chinese market have not been realised.
The mill's owners said the cost of its raw material had increased by 35% and weavers' wages had risen but the price of tweed had fallen by 10%.
They added that the business had a full order book and would seek voluntary administration to give the site and its jobs some protection.


A man has set off for Nepal to become a self-styled artist-in-residence on the world's highest mountain.

Derek Eland will spend six weeks at Everest Base Camp recording the experiences of those attempting to reach earth's highest peak.
Using a "diary room", he will explore what it is like to "be human in a different and difficult place".
Mr Eland, from Carlisle, has previously spent time as a war artist with British Forces in Afghanistan.
He will invite everyone who passes through Base Camp to help him with the task, and use sketches, photography and recordings.
He said: I'm particularly interested in the Nepalese and their story of working and living on a mountain that's a goddess.
"But there are also the sports climbers who pay a lot of money to get there, queuing often to get to the summit
"What does it mean for them? Why are they doing it? Why would you risk your life to do something that's on a bucket list."
Following the earthquake a year ago Mr Eland worked with Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre - a local charity - helping to raise money for artists and their families.
To fund his present trip he has sought sponsorship, and has held auctions of his work.
The trip will culminate in an exhibition at the Rheged Centre, Penrith in Spring 2017, which will then go on tour around the UK.