Gunman suspected of killing six people in Polish city of Krakow has died, police say
Investigators are examining whether the attack was inspired or aided by others as police recover 11 weapons and review electronic devices.
- The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people in Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday died in the hospital early Monday after multiple surgeries for gunshot wounds sustained in a shootout with police.
- Investigators discovered the bodies of the suspect's parents and sister at his family home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, about 93 miles from Krakow, suggesting he killed them before driving to the city.
- Off-Duty surgeons Michal Pedziwiatr and Mateusz Wierdak provided critical care to a wounded police officer during the attack. The shooter and his father held permits for 11 firearms.
- Prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation, though officials appeared to walk back initial claims of a far-right motive on Monday, prompting opposition politicians to demand transparency on the evidence.
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the shooting an 'act of terrorism' amid heightened political polarization, intensifying anxiety ahead of Wednesday's annual Independence March in the deeply divided nation.
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Krakow mass shooter dies in hospital, leaving motive for Poland's deadliest shooting
Michal Oksinski, 24, killed nine people, including his parents and sister, before opening fire in Krakow's main square; investigators probe possible far-right ties as two wounded officers who stopped the rampage are hailed as heroes
CRACOVIA, Poland (AP) — The 24-year-old armed man who killed six people and injured another 15 on Saturday in a square in a Polish city died in the hospital on Monday, police reported.
In addition to the six deaths in Krakow, two of them foreigners, it is suspected that the shooter killed his parents and his sister, whose bodies were found at his home in the city of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, two hours away by car.
He was seriously injured in the face of the police.
Micha Oksiski, the attacker of the Kraków shooting, died in a hospital after several surgeries.
(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Michał Oksiński (24), who killed six people by opening fire in Krakow, Poland's second-largest city, on the 9th, two days after the crime...
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