The gunman who killed six people in central Kraków on Saturday has died in hospital, Reuters reports, citing local police.
Police officers wounded him and detained him a few minutes after he opened fire on people in the main square of the Polish city from inside a car.
In addition, 16 people were injured in the attack. Later, the bodies of the suspect’s sister, mother and father were found at his home.
The authorities said the attacker — a 24-year-old resident of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in south-eastern Poland — may have acted under the influence of far-right ideology.
“There were many different emblems on the perpetrator’s clothing; they have been partially examined and interpreted,” Karolina Galecka, a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, told TOK FM radio on Monday.
“These patches contained various motifs that specialists are currently analysing,” she added.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the attack an act of far-right “terrorism”, but law enforcement has not yet stated a possible motive for the crime. The country is observing a period of mourning for the victims of the attack.
- Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the shooting, classifying the incident as a suspected “terrorist offence”.
- Those killed include a British citizen, and those injured include citizens of Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and Russia. Two police officers were wounded during the suspect’s arrest. They are currently in hospital, and one of them is in a critical condition.