Graphic television images broadcast tonight showing bloodied soldiers with shattered limbs being taken on stretchers to helicopters heightened the sense of alarm.

He collapsed, screaming, blood spattering from his shattered limb.

There were no medical teams to rebuild shattered limbs; amputation was the prescription, and the treatment of men's wounds was more horrifying than their infliction.

SHOOTING victim Jason Ward has had the plaster removed from his shattered limbs.

He glanced at his shattered limb and growled.

Corpses with shattered limbs and eyes hanging by a thread and every sort of horror that you can imagine!

The legionaries helped their disabled comrade extract his shattered and mangled limb, all roaring furiously.

Verhanna and the others set to binding his shattered limb.

Soldiers wounded in combat, including thousands from Iraq, went there to replace shattered limbs and rebuild broken lives.

Others were seriously wounded with shattered limbs and head injuries.