A relative of victims who died in a massacre in southern Afghanistan told a US military hearing how he found their bodies piled together and on fire.
The man, Khamal, gave evidence through an interpreter and by live video feed from Kandahar during a preliminary hearing for Staff Sgt Robert Bales, who is charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder over the March 11 attack on two villages. He faces the death penalty if convicted.
Khamal described himself as a cousin of Mohammed Wazir. Six of Mr Wazir's seven children, his wife and mother were killed.
Khamal told the hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, that he arrived at the compound to find Mr Wazir's mother's body in the doorway with a gunshot wound to her head. He said the bodies were found inside.
Prosecutors say Ohio native Bales, 39, a father of two from Lake Tapps, Washington, wore a T-shirt, cape and night-vision goggles, but no body armour- when he slipped away from his remote post, Camp Belambay.
He first attacked one village, returned to the base, and headed out again to attack another village, they say.
In between, he woke a fellow soldier, reported what he had done, and said he was heading out to kill more, the soldier told the hearing. But the soldier did not believe what Bales said and went back to sleep.
Nine children were among the 16 victims and 11 were from the same family.
On Thursday a US Army DNA expert said Bales had the blood of at least four people on his clothes and guns when he surrendered.
The blood of two males and two females was discovered on Bales' trousers, shirt, gloves, rifle and other items, said Christine Trapolsi, an examiner at the army's Criminal Investigation Laboratory.
Bales has not entered a plea and is not expected to give evidence. His lawyers, who did not give an opening statement, have not discussed the evidence, but say Bales has post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered a concussive head injury during a previous deployment to Iraq.
A US agent who investigated the massacre said local villagers were so angered it was weeks before American forces could visit the crime scenes.
By that time, bodies had been buried and some bloodstains had been scraped from the walls, said Special Agent Matthew Hoffman of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command.
Other stains remained, on walls and floors. Investigators recovered shell casings consistent with the weapons Bales reportedly carried.
Mr Hoffman also said Bales tested positive for steroids three days after the killings.
Bales leaned back in his chair at the defence table and did not react as an army doctor, Maj Travis Hawks, gave clinical descriptions of treating the wounded villagers as they arrived at a nearby forward operating base.
One girl had a large bullet wound in the top of her head, he said. She was unresponsive at first, but survived after treatment.
A woman had wounds to her chest and genitals, but she and her relatives insisted that the male doctors not treat her. Prosecutors showed photos of the victims being treated.
An Afghan National Army guard who reported seeing a US soldier outside the base on the of the massacre said the man did not stop even after being asked three times to do so.
The guard, Nematullah, said: "I told him to stop", though he did not say whether the man was Bales. He said the man came towards him, said "How are you?" in Pashto and went inside the base.
Under cross-examination from Bales' lawyer John Browne, who travelled to Afghanistan to question the witnesses, the guard said he saw the man but could not identify him.
Mr Browne pressed further, asking if the guard could describe the soldier at all. The guard said he was white and well built, but those were the only details he could provide.
Nematullah also said the soldier was coming from the north, which is the direction of a village that prosecutors say Bales attacked first in the night-time rampage.