Soldiers attacked civil rights marchers, inquiry told

A man fleeing the carnage on Bloody Sunday told IRA men at the scene that British soldiers were trying to kill civil rights marchers, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

Eamonn McCourt, who was 22 at the time, recalled his terror at hearing the ‘‘zing’’ of bullets after gunfire erupted in Derry during the march in January 1972 which led to 14 people being killed.