A witness at the Bloody Sunday inquiry told today of the horrific moment a wounded man was hurled on top of him by the force of the bullet which struck him, and of seeing a relative shot dead.
Mr James Rowe was sheltering behind a three foot high wall from British soldiers' fire when the wounded man landed on him.
He told the inquiry that Mr Mickey Bradley emerged from a gap between two of the Rossville Flats after being told a boy had been shot.
"People were shouting at Mickey to get down. Mickey was then shot. He was thrown backwards over the wall by the impact and landed on top of me.
"He cried out that he had been shot. I believe he was hit in the upper left side."
Mr Rowe told also of seeing his mother's cousin, Mr Bernard McGuigan, being shot dead by a soldier while he waved a white handkerchief above his head.
He said he believed Mr McGuigan was going to a rubble barricade where bodies were reported to be lying.
"As he moved, he held out above his head a white handkerchief which he waved.
"At that moment I heard the crack of a high velocity shot and saw Barney's head hit by a bullet, he fell on to his back."
Mr Rowe said later, as he tried to crawl along a balcony to the safety of a friend's third floor flat, he heard what he took to be a soldier threaten to shoot a photographer who was recording the scenes of carnage around Rossville Flats.
He said an English voice which he believed to be that of a soldier shouted at the photographer :"Stop taking photographs or I will shoot you". The photographer moved away, he said.
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