At 3:06 that afternoon a UNAMIR message log records that the RPA implored UNAMIR to save threatened people; and at 4:40 p.m. a company size of RPF soldiers left their barracks in Kigali and engaged Presidential Guards who had goaded them, bringing Tutsi to their front gates and killing them in full view of the RPF. Later in the evening of 7 April, Dallaire found the bodies of ten UN peacekeepers in a hospital morgue. They were the Belgian soldiers sent to protect the prime minister early that morning.

