Images show bin Laden's blood-soaked compound

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The mansion in Pakistan where elite US commandos cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in a surgical raid was a bloodstained mess with overturned furniture and blood-soaked carpeting, US television footage showed on Monday.

Footage broadcast the day after the raid by US network ABC showed blood on the floor in one room of the Abbottabad house and broken computers stripped of their hard drives in another.

The grainy and somewhat shaky film footage shows what appears to be a massive hole in the exterior wall of the building. A disheveled platform bed was also seen in the now ramshackle dwelling.

The images were the first to be broadcast since the assault on Sunday to Monday when a US Navy SEAL team dropped from helicopters into the heavily fortified villa bin Laden used as a hideout.

This video frame grab obtained from ABC News shows the interior bedroom in the mansion where Osama Bin Laden was killed May 1. Bin Laden was killed Sunday in a daring raid by US forces in Pakistan, triggering celebrations across the United States a decade after the September 11, 2001 attacks leveled the World Trade Center in New York and damaged the Pentagon.