W RIAAN BELLINGAN
The sight in my left eye was limited at that stage.  I was suffering from shock and I was thinking at that stage, I was a Sergeant, this is, was, this is my operation, I summoned the people here to arrest these  people and it was peak time on a Monday morning.  I was thinking of hostages, I was still hearing shots ringing out and while I was running in the direction of the crossing I came near a Kombi and one of the so-called people identified by the askaris, these freedom fighters, it seemed as if he had a, he was throwing a hand grenade in my direction and then I shot him from a, from near and he fell down.  What precisely happened there,  I cannot remember in much more detail.