British soldiers 'shot at unarmed photographer'

An amateur photographer has told the Saville Inquiry in Derry that British soldiers fired live rounds at him on Bloody Sunday in 1972.

Robert White, who was 36 at the time, took some of the most striking pictures of the victims of the British army raid on Derry's Bogside, which left 13 unarmed

Catholic civilians dead and several more injured.

Mr White said today that while taking cover from the gunfire, he saw a British paratrooper raise his rifle and point it in his direction.

Mr White said he dropped to the ground immediately and heard a bullet whizz past his head. "I have no doubt that had I been standing up, I would have been killed," he said.