Fatal shooting in Kraków leaves six dead
The man who opened fire in a public square, killing six people in a suspected far-right terror attack in Kraków, Poland, has died, reports BritPanorama.
The man, 24, was shot by police during Saturday’s midday rampage in Main Market Square, the historic center of Poland’s second-largest city.
More than a dozen others, including two police officers, were injured. The two officers were in “serious” condition, regional official Krzysztof Jan Klęczar said Sunday.
The gunman “acted with the aim of seriously intimidating a large number of people, making this a terrorist offence,” Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said on X.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński reported that the attacker used an automatic rifle and had “a fascination with far-right ideologies.”
A man and two women, believed to be the shooter’s parents and sister, were also found dead in an apartment in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, a city about 93 miles northeast of Kraków, according to Andrzej Fijołek, deputy inspector of Police National Headquarters. The suspect faced murder charges in those killings, as well, Żurek confirmed on Sunday.
Among the deceased, four women and two men were killed in the shooting. Three of the women and one man were Polish, while a man from the U.K. and a woman from Austria were also among the dead.
The two police officers who intervened to stop the gunman, in actions authorities praised as heroic, remain in the hospital but were both conscious by Sunday afternoon.
Five foreigners from the U.K., Portugal, Russia, Germany, and Austria were reported among the wounded.
The attack took place in Kraków’s popular commerce and tourist destination, leaving locals and visitors shaken.
“We literally ran for our lives and managed to hide from the bullets flying around,” wrote Marie-Ange Collaer, who was visiting with her family from Brussels, on Facebook.
