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The day the water had turned red
STEVE SWEENEY hears the harrowing testimonies of civilians caught in Turkey's indiscriminate bombing of popular tourist resort Kuna Masi in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2020
RUINED LIVES: (Right) Kaywan Kawe Salih, Peyman Talib Tahir with their children; (left) the shop after the hit
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“ONE minute children were happily splashing about in the water, the next it was a bloodbath. The tranquillity and laughter turned into chaos and screams.
“The whole world turned upside down in an instant. Mums ran into the water to find their children. The shop was destroyed and a man lay over there, dead,” Rezbar Muhammad said, pointing to the road where we had parked our car.
“My uncle was speaking to a man who was buying some eggs. He was putting them in a bag when the missile struck. His daughter was blown into the air and landed 8 feet below the shop.
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