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"I went to the market (where my husband used to work) and took a camping stove to cook dinner with me. After dinner my husband told me to gather everything and he left. Sometime half past four, I heard a noise that made my ears ring. I didn't know what it was, but it wasn't thunder. I wasn't afraid. Then I saw something like a pipe flying through the air. A sort of red ball flew out of it. I saw it explode and straight away I heard a noise like terrible thunder. I was scared and deafened.
I didn't remember anything else. I suffered amnesia for some five months. The "pipe" fell down on the market house. People were just starting to leave the market after work. When the ball blew up, shrapnel hit them. In one second heads, legs and arms were torn off and abdomens were torn apart. I didn't hear anything. I just saw it with my eyes..."
Chechnya, 2000