First shots fired ‘directed at paras’

THE first shots fired on Bloody Sunday were directed at paratroopers as they entered the Bogside area of Derry, it was claimed yesterday.

A Coldstream Guard, who has been granted anonymity, told the Saville

Inquiry in London he was in no doubt the first shots fired on January 30, 1972 were from the roof of the Rossville Flats.