Suspect in Kraków shooting dies after police intervention
The suspect in the shooting that killed six people and injured fifteen others in Kraków on Saturday has died in hospital, police announced Monday. “We inform you that the perpetrator of the tragic events died this morning in hospital,” the police of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, of which Kraków is the capital, stated on X.
The 24-year-old Polish man, described by the Interior Minister as being “fascinated” by far-right ideologies, fatally shot six people – including a British citizen and an Austrian – and wounded fifteen others on Saturday afternoon in the Market Square, the heart of Kraków’s historic old town.
He was shot and wounded by police who responded to the scene and subsequently hospitalized.
At his home, located two hours from Kraków, police discovered the bodies of his parents and sister, who had gunshot wounds.
Two days of national mourning have been declared in Poland. The prosecutor’s office announced Sunday that an investigation has been opened for an act of “terrorist nature,” and includes the deaths of his relatives.
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