A FORMER paratrooper has told the Ballymurphy inquest how he was shot more than 48 years ago.
The inquest, which resumed yesterday after the summer recess, is probing the deaths of 10 people in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast over three days in August 1971.
Witness M910 was a private attached to B Company, 2 Para, based at the Vere Foster School and Henry Taggart Memorial Hall on the Springfield Road.
He described August 9 1971, the day internment was introduced.
Six civilians were shot that day, four of them on waste ground opposite the Henry Taggart Hall.
M910 remembered being on foot patrol and later on guard duty as angry crowds gathered at the base.
He told the court that later that day he was sitting with other soldiers watching television at the school when he heard a crack and a flash.
The soldiers dived for cover and he realised he had been shot in the left shoulder.
He was given first aid and was sedated. When he woke up, he heard gunfire.
The soldier said he had not seen any of his colleagues firing their weapons.
His medical records showed he was treated at Musgrave Park Hospital Military Wing and in a hospital in Cambridgeshire.
The court had previously heard evidence about a soldier shot in the other shoulder and treated in a different hospital.
The Coroners Service is now examining if two soldiers might have been shot and injured that night.
