A witness has told the inquiry that after the bodies of victims were carried away on Bloody Sunday he saw two men arrive with a box of nail-bombs and they asked him "where the Brits were".
Mr Benn Keaveney, whose statement will be tested by questions from counsel when he continues his evidence today, described a sequence of events in which he himself was fired upon repeatedly as he attempted to escape from the scene of the shootings.
At one point, he said, after seeing a person near him shot, he saw a soldier looking at him. "I thought that he was going to shoot me, but he lowered his gun and pointed at me with his left index finger as if to say 'I could have shot you, but you're lucky'," he said.
Mr Keaveney, who was aged 15 on Bloody Sunday, told how bullets hit the ground near him as he tried to flee from the Bogside earlier.
"At Glenfada Park, bullets were bouncing around me - the wall in front of me exploded and pieces of pebble dash and brick hit me in the face. I was temporarily blinded."
Returning to the Abbey Park area, he saw "two people carrying a large box containing between two and four nail-bombs," he said. "I remember the box was too big for the amount of nail-bombs contained in it.
"They were wearing bulky jackets and may also have had some other bombs in their pockets. They appeared to have just arrived in the area and did not know anything about what had happened.
"They were between 19 and 20 years old and they asked me where the Brits were." He said an old man approached and said "Don't do it. The soldiers have moved back".
This man added that the army would only use it as an excuse for their actions that day. After this, the two men appeared to be resigned and moved back.