Suspect dies in Poland shooting attack that killed 6 people

Seriously injured in a shootout with police... Investigation into the motive of the crime continues

(Berlin = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Local media outlets such as TVP reported that Michał Oksinski (24), a terrorist suspect who killed six people by shooting in Krakow, Poland's second largest city, died during treatment at a hospital on the 9th (local time), two days after the crime.

The suspect was hospitalized with serious injuries after driving in Krakow's central square, shooting at passers-by, and engaging in a shootout with police.

Krzysztof Klenčar, governor of Kraków's Lower Polskie region, said the suspect underwent at least three surgeries but died around 4:30 a.m. that day.

Six people, including four Poles, one Briton, and one Austrian, were killed in this incident, which was recorded as the worst shooting rampage since Poland's democratization in 1989. The 15 injured included five foreigners and two police officers who engaged in a shootout while subduing the suspect.

Three family members, including his parents and younger sister, were found dead from gunshot wounds at the suspect's home in Ostrowiec, about 150 km northeast of Krakow. Authorities believe the suspect murdered his family and then went to Krakow to commit the crime.

The suspect, who worked as a lathe, legally possessed a firearm with permission from authorities and had no criminal record. Prosecutors identified a total of 11 firearms in the vehicle and home used in the crime.

Prosecutors said they would continue the investigation despite the suspect's death. The Ministry of the Interior defined the crime as a far-right terrorist attack, saying the suspect had "very radical and extreme nationalist tendencies," but the direct motive for the crime has not yet been revealed.