SAS hero found 'river red with blood' and 'bonfire of human bodies' on grisly mission

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SAS hero Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham opened up about the horrific scenes he encountered while on a surveillance mission during the Bosnian War.Billy is now well-known for his role on the popular SAS: Who Dares Wins TV series, but before his career on television, the former soldier served in some of the most dangerous environments in the world with the British SAS.

The 57 year-old joined the special troop in 1991 after getting involved in dangerous gang fights during a rough upbringing in Birmingham, which once even saw his back slashed viciously in a knife fight.READ MORE: SAS hero slams Brits fighting in Ukraine as 'they create mayhem and get away with it'Now, speaking on the Combat Story podcast, Billy opened up about his life in the SAS, and reflected on one horrific scene he had encountered while serving during the Bosnian War during the early 1990s.“There was one particular incident, I’d only been there a couple of weeks, and there’s bodies on the roads, there’s animals dead in the streets… It’s a war zone,” he began.Billy described how his company had been surveilling a village that had come under the attack of Arkan’s Tigers, a group that had been ethnically cleansing the Bosnian people.And, once the attack had finished, the military hardman could hardly believe the grisly sight he encountered.“We went back a few days later, and as we went down there, there were just bodies everywhere, the river was red with blood.

I’ve never seen anything like it, it was like a film set,” he recalled.“As I was coming down past this orchard, the smell of death was unbelievable… In the orchard, it looked like somebody had been building a bonfire.