Authorities also found the bodies of the assailant\u2019s sister, mother and father at the man\u2019s family home in Ostrowiec \u015awi\u0119tokrzyski, a city about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of Krakow. They likely died from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
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Marie-Ange Collaer wrote on Facebook that she and her family survived the shooting during a trip to Krakow from Brussels.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe literally ran for our lives and managed to hide from the bullets flying around,\u201d she wrote. \u201cLying on the floor in a shop like in a bad police movie whilst you hear bullets everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
U.K. resident Neil Thaxton and his wife also lived through the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had just walked through the main square and heard the gunshots,\u201d Thaxton wrote on Facebook. \u201cWe thought it was fireworks then people started running, we went into a gift shop and the staff took us in the back of the shop and locked the doors and turned the lights off.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Alexandros Maronitis, a tourist from Greece, told The Associated Press that he couldn\u2019t get back to his lodgings for five hours after the tragedy.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe saw the shooter when they picked him up with the ambulance,\u201d Maronitis said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re a bit afraid. It\u2019s our first time in Poland. We heard it\u2019s a safe country.\u201d<\/p>\n
American tourist Marylin Green mourned the losses in the \u201cbeautiful city\u201d during her first trip to Poland that also included the capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m Polish, my parents were from here,\u201d she said. \u201cI loved Warsaw. So I was really looking forward to coming here, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Witness Andy Hill told the BBC that he\u2019d felt like he was in a movie scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel real,\u201d the British tourist said. \u201cAnd the trouble is, you have such an instantaneous moment to make a decision: Run. Stand still. There\u2019s an element of shock. But I just thought the easiest thing to do is dive through a doorway and just take refuge behind the windows.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Prosecutors said Sunday they opened an investigation into the murder and attempted murder of numerous people, including police officers, with the act \u201cconstituting a terrorist offense.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Four women and two men were killed in the Main Square shooting. Three of the women and one of the men were Polish, Krzysztof Jan Kl\u0119czar, the Malopolska regional governor, said on Sunday. A man from the U.K. and a woman from an unidentified foreign country were also among the dead.<\/p>\n
A video posted on social media showed a police officer repeatedly shooting the attacker, who was lying on the street. The officer later slowly collapsed to the ground.<\/p>\n
The two police officers who stopped the gunman, in actions authorities hailed as heroic, remain in the hospital. They were both conscious by Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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