A woman who was inside the museum in Tunisia when it was stormed by gunmen has recounted her ordeal from her hospital bed.
Italian Bruna Scherini was among a group of cruise ship passengers visiting the Bardo Museum in central Tunis when it came under attack on Wednesday.
Ms Scherini was shot in the leg by a gunman with an automatic rifle and is recovering in hospital.
She told how she and her daughter were looking around the museum, renowned for its collection of Roman mosaics, when the attackers started shooting.
"We entered a room where we were looking at mosaics, and suddenly my daughter started to hear gunshots so we all tried to escape and all of us tried to save ourselves as best we could," she said.
"We tried to hide behind the exhibits, and in the corners where there was a little hiding place.
"It was just a second and then we all spread a bit in different directions, there were various rooms and everyone was trying to find a place to hide somehow."
Ms Scherini said the attackers "sprayed bullets around to intimidate us".
"Next to me there were two people who didn't move and others who were injured. Everyone was injured," she said.
"A friend of mine was with me and her little girl, they are okay, they saved themselves. Thank goodness nothing happened to the girl."
Twenty tourists - many of them cruise passengers - were among the 23 people killed, making it the worst attack at a tourist site in Tunisia in more than a decade.
The two gunmen, both Tunisian, were among the dead.
Witnesses have described how the men opened fire on tourists arriving at museum before chasing them inside. The attackers later died in a firefight with police.
A Spanish couple were found alive and well on Thursday morning after cowering in fear in the museum all night.
Juan Carlos Sanchez and Cristina Rubio, who is four months pregnant, stayed hiding - hours after the attackers died and the other visitors were escorted to safety.
Speaking from the maternity ward of a Tunis hospital, Mr Sanchez told how they were waiting to have lunch with their tour guide when a man ran past, fleeing gunshots.
They then found a small room to hide in.
"That's where we stayed until the police saw us today and then we left. We spent all night there and we thought the terrorists were still outside," he said.
"But it was simply the police who were searching for people. We thought they were terrorists out there and that's why we didn't venture out."
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A tourist injured after an attack by gunmen on Tunisia's national museum is wheeled on a stretcher
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