21. The temple grounds were strewn with smashed window panes and burnt furniture and garbage. 22. They live on food handouts and usually swarm the parking area on temple grounds, where visitors arrive. 23. Two smaller buildings on the temple grounds, one containing its massive bell, had already fallen. 24. Viechien had claimed that the spirit of a Japanese soldier appeared in his dream and told him that a huge treasure was buried in the temple ground. 25. Under public pressure, Song later offered to resign but his followers refused to give in and tried to oust opponents from the temple grounds. 26. Witnesses, however, said the six gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons as soon as they entered the temple grounds. 27. Witnesses, however, said the six gunmen opened fire as soon as they entered the temple grounds, spraying wildly with automatic weapons. |