Gunman kills six in Krakow’s main market square
A 25-year-old Polish man acting alone opened fire from a car on Kraków’s main market square on Saturday at around 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), killing six people and injuring 16, including police officers. He drove to several points in the square, a major tourist site in Poland’s second-largest city, and shot at random with an automatic long gun while wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest. Police returned fire, wounded him and took him to hospital; other weapons and ammunition were found in the car.
Police chief Marek Boron said the dead were four women and two men: three Polish women, one British national, and two people not yet identified. Five of the 16 injured were non-Polish, police had said earlier. On Saturday night Prime Minister Donald Tusk reported that the bodies of two women and a man were found at the suspect’s home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) northeast of Kraków, with much to suggest they were immediate family.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the unnamed shooter was fascinated by far-right ideologies and held ultranationalist, very radical views. Tusk called the attack terrorism and said Poland would observe two days of mourning. President Karol Nawrocki expressed condolences; the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered solidarity.
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