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Poland sends plane with doctors, diplomats to help Poles hurt in the attack in Tunisia

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Poland’s national white-and-red flag flying at half-staff on the Belweder Palace of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, March 19, 2015, in a sign of mourning for Poles killed and injured in the armed attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Wednesday. Officials said that two Poles were confirmed killed, and others were hospitalized, but stressed the figures could change as Tunisian officials were still identifying the victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

Poland’s national white-and-red flag flying at half-staff on the Belweder Palace of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, March 19, 2015, in a sign of mourning for Poles killed and injured in the armed attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Wednesday. Officials said that two Poles were confirmed killed, and others were hospitalized, but stressed the figures could change as Tunisian officials were still identifying the victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

Poland has sent a plane with doctors and diplomats to Tunisia to help and bring back Poles injured in a gun attack in a museum in Tunis.

Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said Thursday morning that according to information he has at the moment, two Poles were killed in the attack, two are missing and nine were hospitalized with injuries that are not life-threatening.

President Bronislaw Komorowski stressed that Tunisian authorities are still identifying the victims and the numbers could change.

National flags on government buildings were flown half-staff in a sign of mourning.

Doctors, psychologists and consular officials have flown to Tunis. Some 300 Polish tourists are in Tunisia, according to tourist offices.