A woman has told the Bloody Sunday tribunal that she saw four civilians fall after a soldier raised his rifle and aimed towards the rubble barricade in Rossville Street.
Ann Gallagher, who was 19 in January 1972 when 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead by members of the Parachute Regiment said she sheltered in her aunt's flat in the Rossville complex as the shootings took place.
Ms Gallagher said as she looked out of the living room window she saw a soldier in nearby Glenfada Park North. "I have a very definite impression that the soldier, who was dressed in the same way as those I had seen earlier in the waste ground, raised his rifle in the direction of the men by the rubble barricade and fired," she said.
She said the next few seconds appeared to be in slow motion. "The three young men to the south of the rubble barricade stopped moving and lay on the ground fairly close to each other."
|
Three young men, Michael McDaid, William Nash and John Young were all shot dead at the rubble barricade on Bloody Sunday. Mr Nash's father Alexander was wounded as he went to the aid of his son.
Ms Gallagher said the next thing she remembered was seeing soldiers throwing three bodies into a Saracen parked in Rossville Street.
But she did not know if the men thrown into the back of the vehicle were the same young men she witnessed being shot by the barricade.
"The three men were thrown into the back of the Saracen like cattle but I did not think at the time that they might be dead. "I thought they had been injured and arrested and remember thinking that they would get a good kicking in the barracks that evening."