Krakow mass shooting suspect dies in hospital after attack killed six
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The 24-year-old who opened fire in Kraków’s Main Square on Saturday, killing six people and wounding 15, died in hospital Monday at 4:30 a.m., police said. The attacker, wearing military-style clothing and a bulletproof vest, drove into the tourist-filled Old Town square and continued firing even after being wounded by police officers; he had been in critical condition and undergone multiple operations. Prosecutors have opened a murder and attempted murder probe that they say constitutes a terrorist offense and have seized the suspect’s electronic devices to examine whether he was inspired or helped, Eryk Stasielak of the Kraków prosecutor’s office said. Authorities said the suspect held far-right and ultra-nationalistic views; Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said everything indicates fascination with far-right ideologies. Four women and two men died; among the dead were a British man and an Austrian woman, and five foreigners from the U.K., Portugal, Russia, Germany and Austria are among the wounded. Police and local officials recovered a total of 11 weapons, including seven seized from the attacker’s family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, where the bodies of the assailant’s sister, mother and father were found and likely died from gunshot wounds. Poland is observing the second of two days of national mourning and officials praised the two police officers whose intervention limited further casualties; both remain hospitalized but were conscious after being in comas.
