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Italian students moved to safety after Kraków square shooting

Italy's ambassador to Poland describes how the embassy contacted the group and told them to wait for police clearance before moving.

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Stay where you are until police authorize you to move: that was the embassy's instruction to Italian students caught near the shooting in Kraków's Main Market Square, according to Italy's ambassador to Poland, Luca Franchetti Pardo.

Speaking in a report from Italy's RaiNews, the news channel of public broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana, the ambassador says the students were subsequently gathered in a safe location. The report opens with footage of people fleeing across the square, then shows emergency vehicles, firefighters and police at the scene.

The broadcaster reports that no Italians were known to be among those killed or wounded at the time of the interview. Franchetti Pardo says neither police, relatives nor people at the scene had notified the embassy of Italian casualties.

A witness interviewed by Polish television describes seeing several people struck by gunfire and a motionless person at an intersection. Another woman, speaking near the cordoned-off square, describes residents as frightened to leave their homes.

In separate coverage, the broadcaster reports six people killed and at least 15 injured, and says police detained the attacker. This short report concentrates on the embassy's response: contacting the students, keeping them in place while police controlled movement, and bringing the group together somewhere safe.

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