Crime: Six dead and more than fifteen injured in shooting in Krakow

Krakow. According to police, a man shot six people and injured 15 others on Saturday afternoon in the main square in Krakow, southern Poland. Two police officers were among the injured. The alleged perpetrator was arrested.

The shots on the Great Square, the main square of the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, were fired from a moving car, the Polsat News channel reported, citing emergency services. The authorities initially appealed to people in the surrounding area to go to a safe place.

Initially nothing was known about the background. The news portal Onet reported that the shooter was a Polish citizen. "The man had no identification documents with him. The police were able to establish his identity through operational work," Onet quoted an official as saying.

Videos on social media showed that a rescue helicopter landed on the site. “Around 3 p.m., a man who had driven a car into the market square began shooting at random people from the vehicle,” the police said on Platform X. She confirmed that the alleged perpetrator had been arrested.