"We thought it was safe. The tunnel I was in was packed with people. I saw people from my village and thought it was okay. Then the shooting came. Bullets ricocheted off the concrete and hit the people like popcorn in a frying pan. Mother wrapped me with a quilt and hugged me. It was shooting from both sides. When there was shooting coming from one side, we rushed to the other side. When the bullets came, we could not even raise our heads. We just dug under dead bodies."
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Yang Hae-sook who was 12, who reports that she lost an eye in the original strafing, and was then herded into the No Gun Ri bridge tunnels with other survivors, where her grandmother, an elder brother and a baby brother, as well as an aunt and her husband and their two daughters were killed.
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