A doctor who says he was just a yard or so away from the young Iranian woman known around the world simply as Neda when she was shot Saturday has told the BBC about what he saw and that bystanders quickly identified an armed man on a motorcycle as the likely shooter.

Dr. Arash Hejazi is now in Britain.

He says he was among the protesters in Tehran on Saturday when:

"We heard a gunshot. Neda was standing one metre away from me. I turned back and I saw blood gushing out of Neda's chest. ...

"We ran to her and lay her on the ground. I saw the bullet wound just below the neck with blood gushing out. ...

"Her blood was draining out of her body and I was just putting pressure on the wound to try to stop the bleeding, which wasn't successful unfortunately, and she died in less than one minute."

Soon after, the doctor told BBC News, he saw some of the protesters grab the man on the motorcycle.

"People shouted 'we got him, we got him'. They disarmed him and took out his identity card which showed he was a Basij member. People were furious and he was shouting, 'I didn't want to kill her'.

"People didn't know what do to do with him so they let him go. But they took his identity card. There are people there who know who he is. Some people were also taking photos of him."

There is a 19-minute video of the BBC's interview here. And the news service has made this shorter clip available as well.