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(Wednesday, July 26, 1950, midday KDT; during the No Gun Ri Massacre, part of the Korean War, part of the Cold War) — American military airplanes strafed a group of Korean refugees today as they rested along the railroad embankment near No Gun Ri, South Korea.

Survivors first sought shelter in a small culvert beneath the tracks, but soldiers and U.S. ground fire drove them from there into a double tunnel beneath a concrete railroad bridge.

Inside the bridge underpasses, each 80 feet long, 22 feet wide and 40 feet high, they came under heavy machine gun and rifle fire from 7th Cavalry troops through July 29, 1950.

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The South Korean government-funded No Gun Ri Peace Foundation estimated in 2011 that 250–300 were killed, mostly women and children.

The rest of the world would not learn of the massacre for nearly fifty years. On September 30, 1999, Associated Press reporters Sang-hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza would publish the results of their investigation.