JOHN RAEDLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Helicopters ferried the wounded from the scene of the massacre to nearby Hobart. Eighteen injured survivors now being treated in hospital. But back at the scene, an old convict prison called Port Arthur, more than 30 people did not survive the rampage.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard all the shooting, boom, boom, and then we fall down, there was four dead here, two dead there.</s>RAEDLER: Witnesses say the gunman drove into the site, carried a tennis bag into a cafeteria, took a high-powered semi-automatic rifle from the bag and began shooting.</s>RAEDLER: That was a real shock, I think, that it could happen in Australia, that it could happen in Tasmania.</s>REV. DENNIS ALLEN: We have watched Dunblaine and Lockerbie and places, and from afar, we stand by. but when we are here, this is our Dunblaine.</s>RAEDLER: In the end there were 35 people killed, there were more than 20 others wounded. The judge sentenced Martin Bryant to imprisonment for the term of his natural life. It is not known why he did what he did.</s>RAEDLER (voice-over): Now that the drama is over, the trauma has begun, as Tasmanians try to come to terms with what few of them could ever have imagined happening in their green and serene island underneath down under.
CNN 20: Massacre in Tasmania, April 28, 1996