Twin sisters from Northallerton fled Krakow square gunfire: "we ran for our lives"
Sienna and Rimini Chapman, 20, were celebrating a friend's 21st birthday in Krakow when a gunman opened fire in the city's Main Market Square on Saturday. The attacker killed six people, including a British national, and injured 15 before dying in hospital on Monday. Sienna told the BBC the moment was "terrifying".
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Sienna and Rimini Chapman, 20-year-old twins from Northallerton in North Yorkshire, were in Krakow's Main Market Square at about 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday when shots rang out. The pair were part of a group of friends marking a friend's 21st birthday in Poland. Sienna described the attack to the BBC as closing with a single word: terrifying.
The group was walking towards a cafe in the square when they heard the first gunfire. Sienna said she initially mistook the sound for someone scaring pigeons away, until people started sprinting towards them. Realising something was badly wrong, the friends turned and ran the other way. In her words, they ran for their lives.
The gunman, 24, killed six people before he died in hospital on Monday. Among the dead were four Polish citizens, a British national and an Austrian woman. Another 15 people were hurt, two of them police officers.
Sienna and Rimini are the latest voices from the square that afternoon, describing an ordinary birthday trip that flipped into chaos in seconds.
TopicsSienna Chapman · Rimini Chapman · Northallerton · Krakow · Main Market Square · BBC · Poland
Source: bbc.co.uk
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