A 25-year-old gunman drove into Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Main Market Square on Saturday afternoon and opened fire, killing six people and wounding about 15 others before police shot and wounded him, Polish authorities said. Poland\u2019s defence minister called it an \u201cact of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four women and two men were killed. Police said at least five of the wounded were foreign nationals. The suspect, a Polish citizen whom the authorities have not named, was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
The gunman drove to several spots in the square and fired at each stop with an automatic weapon, police said. He was wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest, and police found other weapons and ammunition in his car. They said he kept firing at officers even after being hit.<\/p>\n
Two police officers were seriously wounded, and one was in critical condition. Prime Minister Donald Tusk named them as Senior Constables Jakub Kulik and Artur Mora\u0144ski, and said they \u201clikely saved many lives, without regard for the risk of losing their own.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski said the man was fascinated with far-right ideologies and held \u201cvery radical\u201d and \u201cultranationalistic\u201d views. \u201cEverything indicates that he was fascinated by far-right ideologies,\u201d he said. Authorities have not given a motive.<\/p>\n
Late on Saturday, Tusk said police had found three more people dead at the suspect\u2019s home in Ostrowiec \u015awi\u0119tokrzyski, about 200 km north of Krak\u00f3w: two women and a man, who are believed to be his close relatives. He called it \u201cthe next acts of this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the tragic attack in Krak\u00f3w,\u201d Tusk said. He praised the police and paramedics, and appealed to politicians \u201cof all stripes: do not exploit this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will establish all the circumstances of this crime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the city \u201cis suffering, but it is not giving up. And it is not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the loss of life \u201cwill be felt far beyond Poland,\u201d and conveyed her condolences to Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski. \u201cIn this moment of grief, Poland does not stand alone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old gunman drove into Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Main Market Square on Saturday afternoon and opened fire, killing six people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[64,19467,19468,19466,19129,19470,19164,17212,19219,9,19464,19471,19361,19339,19465,19469],"class_list":["post-36037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-donald-tusk","tag-dozen-injured","tag-far-right-ideology","tag-gunman-poland","tag-krakow-shooting","tag-krakow-tragedy","tag-main-market-square","tag-mass-shooting","tag-military-fatigues","tag-poland","tag-poland-attack","tag-police-wounded","tag-polish-gunman","tag-six-killed","tag-terror-act","tag-terrorism-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}