Five killed and more than a dozen injured in Krakow shooting, police say
A shooting in the historic market square of Krakow left five people dead and more than a dozen injured, Polish police told the Associated Press. Authorities said a gunman opened fire in the square, and a police spokesperson told Reuters that calls began around 3 p.m. local time (2 p.m. GMT) after a car entered the square and shots were fired at random at people there.
Officers shot the perpetrator, who was then being transported to a hospital, police said. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X that police are investigating the attack. The sequence described by officials is of an assault from a vehicle rather than a static gunman already on foot in the square: reports arriving in the early afternoon of indiscriminate fire from a car, a police response that wounded the attacker, and a still-unfolding inquiry into how the shooting began and how many of those hurt remain in critical condition.
For readers outside Poland, Krakow’s main market square is a densely visited public space in the city centre; an attack there in mid-afternoon would have put both residents and visitors at risk. Police have not, in the accounts given here, named the attacker or a motive, nor have they published a fuller breakdown of the wounded beyond saying more than a dozen people were injured. The confirmed death toll stands at five, with the investigation, as Tusk indicated, in the hands of Polish police.
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