Summary
Poland began two days of national mourning after a gunman killed six people and wounded 15 in Krakow’s Main Square. Prosecutors opened a murder and attempted-murder investigation, treating the attack as a suspected terrorist offense; the 24-year-old suspect was wounded by police.Key Facts
- The shooting took place in Krakow’s Main Square, a busy tourist area in the city’s Old Town.
- Four women and two men were killed; three women and one man were Polish, while the other victims were a British man and a woman from an unidentified country.
- Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect held radical, ultranationalist views and appeared fascinated by far-right ideologies.
- Police officers shot and wounded the suspect.
- Two officers who intervened remain hospitalized; one was still in a coma and the other had woken from a coma, officials said.
- Authorities found the bodies of the suspect’s sister, mother and father at the family home, and said they likely died from gunshot wounds.
- Officials said they recovered 11 guns: seven from the family home and four from the suspect or his car.
- Poland began two days of national mourning, and the traditional hourly trumpet call from St. Mary’s Basilica was paused overnight.
