Footage has emerged showing terrified tourists fleeing as Islamic State gunmen launched a deadly assault on a museum in Tunisia.
Italian tourist Maria Rita Gelotti was filming during a guided tour of the Bardo Museum in Tunis when a first explosion rang out, quickly followed by another.
Ms Gelotti is heard asking her husband Marcello Salvatori "did they shoot?" as gunfire echoed through the building and holidaymakers and staff ran for cover.
The couple hid in a fire escape while three gunmen attacked the renowned Tunis museum, killing 21 people, the deadliest attack on tourists in Tunisia in 13 years.
Now safely back in Italy, Ms Gelotti said: "We cried and hugged. My husband and me thought we would die because while we descended the stairs we heard Kalashnikovs firing behind and on top of us.
"Then I saw a guy with his trousers covered in blood. We didn't know how many dead there were in there. We didn't know anything. All that night I cried, genuinely frightened."
Her husband said: "To be honest, I thought immediately, 'Is someone shooting at us?' Suddenly, after another shot, then we realised that it could be an attack, but as the shot resounded I thought that had been a bomb.
"We began to move, to walk, then we were running."
IS claimed responsibility for attacking the museum, which counts among its exhibits a trove of Roman mosaics.
Police identified the two dead attackers as Tunisians in their 20s who had trained in Libya.
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