A woman wept in the witness box at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today as she described a young man being shot as he knelt "lamenting" over the body of another victim.
Mrs Olive Mottram broke down at the Guildhall in Derry when questioned about the shooting at the rubble barricade on the city's Rossville Street almost 30 years ago.
Six of the 13 men killed when Army Paratroopers opened fire in the city's Bogside that day were shot in the area of the rubble barricade - three on the makeshift barrier itself.
Mrs Mottram said she watched events from a block of flats overlooking the scene and said she saw a body on the barricade with another young man kneeling beside him.
"As I watched him, he straightened himself up. I don't know why, perhaps somebody shouted to him. Still kneeling, he put his hands in the air with his hands open and approximately at head height.
"There was nothing in his hands. I am sure of that. He still had his back to the soldiers - I heard a shot. He fell. I knew he was shot."
Another witness, Ms Frances McCullagh, was also reduced to tears twice as she gave evidence about the scenes at the barricade.
Ms McCullagh, who was two floors above Mrs Mottram in the same block of flats, said she saw the three bodies on the barricade - Mr William Nash, Mr John Young and Mr Michael McDaid - and Mr Alexander Nash, the father of William, shot and wounded as he tried to rescue his son.
She described Mr Nash Snr moving across the barricade, crouching and handling each body in turn, waving his arm in the air as he tried to help the victims.
"As I looked at the old man, tending to the bodies and waving, I saw a soldier standing in Rossville Street. He had one knee on the ground and one knee raised," she said.
"He seemed to take aim with his rifle and then I saw his body jerk as he fired it. As he fired the rifle, I saw the old man fall.
"I am not sure exactly what the old man did next but I believe he got up and waved his other arm at which point I saw the soldier fire again and again."
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