 In the earliest published accounts of the killings , in August and September 1950 , two North Korean journalists with the advancing northern troops reported finding an estimated 400 bodies in the No Gun Ri area , and seeing some 200 bodies in one tunnel . The survivors generally put the death toll at 400 , including 100 in the initial air attack , with scores more wounded . In Pentagon interviews in 2000 , 7th Cavalry veterans ' estimates of No Gun Ri dead ranged from dozens to 300 . One who had a close look , career soldier Homer Garza , who led a patrol through one No Gun Ri tunnel , said that he saw 200 to 300 bodies piled up there . 
