"They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," - Reuters

[jsmirman]

65. Again, I believe trying to pick a story this early is pointless

but you do realize that there are many reports that say there are villagers who reported it was only one soldier, right? Are you aware of this, or did you miss this part of the current coverage?

You can say that only seeing one doesn't disprove there being multiple people, and that would be nominally correct, but I would think an *under report* of the number of people (saying it was just one) doing something as incredibly terrifying as shooting up your village and barging into homes to murder people is very unlikely.

There are two versions. There is support for both versions. If we give this more than 24 hours, there may be evidence that will make one version more likely than the other on the basis of evidence, not guessing.

For all we know, it will turn out to be multiple soldiers and the government will be forced to admit to this.

I can't go any further on this right now, I'm sorry. You seem really inclined to choose a version. I am inclined to wait.