Poland mourns victims of Krakow shooting amid security fears
Authorities say the suspect held radical views as investigators examine whether extremist ideology drove the deadliest shooting in Poland since 1989.
- On Saturday, November 7, a 24-year-old gunman opened fire in the historic centre of Krakow, Poland, triggering panic as emergency services responded to the attack in the country's second-largest city.
- Police discovered three bodies—the suspect's parents and sister—at the gunman's home in Ostrowiec Swietorkzyski; the suspect, identified as Michal O., had no prior criminal record but belonged to a shooting club.
- Two police officers were wounded while confronting the masked attacker, who wore military garb and a bulletproof vest. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski noted that officer Jakub Kulik confronted the armed attacker without hesitation.
- The National Prosecutor's Office launched a terrorism investigation into the shooting, as Warsaw announced two days of national mourning beginning Sunday. Most local businesses in the square remained closed.
- Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was "shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting." Local guide Krzysztof Stepien told AFP, "Nothing like this has ever happened here, and I hope it never will again.
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The 24-year-old assassin died in the hospital, killed six people and injured 15.
According to the police, the perpetrator of the Cracow firearms attack is dead. He was killed in the hospital on Monday morning. Reporter Julian Stähle reports.
The man who shot six people and wounded another fifteen on Saturday in Krakow, Poland, died of his wounds in the hospital, announced Monday the police of the petty-Poland voivodship on social network X (formerly Twitter). ...
This killing resulted in six deaths and 16 injuries on Saturday in the historic centre of the city.
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op-online.deThe man is killed in the hospital, informs the police in a post office on platform X.
The man who opened fire in the center of Krakow on November 7 has died in hospital, police in the Lesser Poland province said. “We would like to inform you that the perpetrator of these tragic events died early this morning in hospital,” the police department said in a statement in the Ex. The attacker was shot by police officers while trying to stop him and take him to a hospital under guard. Before his death, authorities said he had undergone …
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