Inside the room a gruesome scene met the eyes of a "North-China Daily News" reporter who arrived only a few moments after the gunmen had departed. Screaming women, blood pouring from wounds, were trying to drag themselves up from the floor. Young children, attired in their best for the festive occasion, were howling with pain in large chairs, where they had been placed by people who had rushed into the room after the exit of the gunmen. Lying in distorted positions along both sides of the room were Chinese men some of them unconscious while others, who had not been injured, attempted to staunch their wounds.
It has been estimated that there were fifty people in the room at the time. These included a young Chinese boy, who was dead when ambulance attendants picked him up, five women, including the bride, and two men, one of whom was the best man. They were immediately conveyed to hospital and four of them are not expected to survive.
Around the walls of the room, police from. Bubbling Well station discovered numerous bullets all of which had deeply embedded themselves in the plaster and woodwork. How many shots were actually fired has not been ascertained but it is estimated that there must have been over thirty sent into the room.
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