The No Gun Ri Massacre occurred on July 26–29, 1950, early in the Korean War, when an undetermined number of South Korean refugees were killed by the 7th U.S. Cavalry Regiment at a railroad bridge near the village of No Gun Ri, 100 miles southeast of Seoul. In 2005, the South Korean government certified the names of 163 dead or missing and 55 wounded. It said many other victims' names were not reported. Over the years survivors' estimates of the dead have ranged from 300 to 500, whilst the U.S. Army cites the number of casualties as "unknown". The site was excavated in 2007, but no... remains were found. The massacre allegations were little known outside Korea until the publication of Associated Press reports in 1999 containing interviews with 7th Cavalry veterans who corroborated Korean survivors' accounts. The AP writers also uncovered warfront orders to fire on refugees, given out of fear of enemy North Korean infiltration.
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