(12 Oct 2006)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Bulldozers tearing down school house
2. People from Amish community standing watching
3. Various of bulldozers tearing down school house
4. Sign reading"God's Little Angels", pull out to wide of people standing in front of school house
5. Tilt-up from grass to bulldozer flattening school house
++DAY SHOTS++
6. Wide pan of cemetery where young Amish girls are buried
7. Various of headstones in graveyard
8. Carl Roberts' (man responsible for the girls death) grave (at different cemetery)
9. Closer shot of Roberts' fresh gravesite, his infant daughter's headstone immediately beside
10. Wide pan of empty piece of land where school house used to stand
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Hart, Bart Township Fire Department:
"Yeah, like I said, some type of physical closure, but it will always be in our heart when we drive past that location. We'll always have a sense of a... it will never leave us, our lives are changed forever in this community."
12. Amish school children walking
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Laurie Chambers, Pennsylvania resident :
"It's kind of nice to know that it won't be there so it won't be a reminder to the Amish people who are having to deal with this."
14. Memorial near former school site, pull out to wide shot to see horse-drawn buggy passing
STORYLINE:
Residents of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania looked towards a demolition crew on Thursday to help bring some closure to a painful chapter for their peaceful community.
Workers with bulldozers and heavy machinery moved in before dawn to demolish the one-room Amish schoolhouse where a gunman fatally shot five girls and wounded five others.
In just about 15 minutes, the schoolhouse - which had become a tragic reminder of last week's horrific event - was reduced to little more than rubble.
A group of some 30 people, many of them in traditional Amish dress, gathered nearby to watch as the schoolhouse was levelled.
By morning the debris was gone leaving just a bare patch of earth.
The Amish say they plan to leave empty land where the schoolhouse once stood.
The destruction of the West Nickel Mines Amish School came a week after the solemn funerals of the five girls killed by gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV.
Roberts held the 10 girls hostage for about an hour before shooting them and killing himself as police closed in.
The five girls wounded in the October 2 shooting are still believed to be hospitalised. The hospitals are no longer providing any information about the patients, at the request of their families.
The school had been boarded up since the killings ten days earlier.
Mike Hart, a spokesperson for the Bart Township Fire Department, said local residents were hoping the demolition would bring about some closure.
Pennsylvania resident Laurie Chambers said it is good that the building is no longer there.
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