Kraków shooting: Slovak student and soldier revived wounded woman

A medical student and a soldier from Slovakia gave help to a wounded woman immediately after the shooting on Kraków’s Main Square. They performed resuscitation until an ambulance arrived, said Slovak tour guide Povážanová, who was with a group of tourists at the time.

When the attack happened, the couple was sitting in a restaurant with a glass terrace near St. Mary’s Basilica. Seeing what had happened, the young people decided to help.

“Linda ran straight out onto the square and asked the police whether they could go and help. The police allowed it, and right after the attack they resuscitated the wounded woman until the ambulance came, and its crew then took her over,” Povážanová told a Slovak outlet in an interview.

The guide said that in the first minutes she was thinking mainly about getting the members of her group off the square to safety. By her own account, she had no time to reflect on what the couple had done. She only truly grasped the weight of their act at home.

“I only realized it on Sunday morning, when I woke up. It hit me how serious what they had done was, how wonderful it was and how heroically they had acted. That is why I also wrote a social media post, so that people would know about it,” she said.

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Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz