Photographers saw line-up of soldiers 'firing in unison'

A photographer said today that on Bloody Sunday, soldiers lined up behind a low wall and fired live rounds in unison towards a crowd.

A photographer said today that on Bloody Sunday, soldiers lined up behind a low wall and fired live rounds in unison towards a crowd.

Former Irish Press photographer Colman Doyle told the Saville Inquiry of two distinct volleys directed towards a rubble barricade across Rossville Street, where six of the 13 killed that day were shot.

Giving evidence at Derry Guildhall, Mr Doyle said he could not believe what he had witnessed and thought the paratroopers must be firing over the heads of the people ahead of them.

He added that he witnessed no petrol or nail bomb explosions and insisted the only shots he heard up to that point were soldiers' rubber bullets.

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