Quickly he found his daughter and, with the paramedic's help, put her on the stretcher, called down the service elevator, and took her to the intensive-care unit on the third floor.

Wounding him removes three: the victim and the two who have to carry him from the field of battle.

And within a half an hour another three corpses had been added to the sad line in the paddock, carried out of the centre by weary looking rescue workers, their faces caked in powdery dust.