Krakow shooter is dead

The perpetrator of the Krakow gun attack is dead. He succumbed to his injuries in hospital in the morning, the police headquarters of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship told X. The 24-year-old was injured when police overpowered him in Poland's second largest city. The authorities were investigating him on suspicion of terrorism.

Six dead and three more bodies

The man drove a car through the center of Krakow, which is popular with tourists, on Saturday afternoon and randomly shot at passers-by. Six people died. He was seriously injured in a subsequent exchange of fire with police officers and two police officers were shot.

A little later, the bodies of the shooter's closest family members were found in a residential building in the small town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie. They were the attacker's father, mother and sister. It is believed that they were also shot by him. The city is around two hours' drive northeast of Krakow.

“Very radical views”

The shooter has been identified as a 24-year-old Pole. The motive behind the crime is unclear. According to initial indications, the man is said to have held "very radical views," as Poland's Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced on Saturday evening. There are signs that he was fascinated by right-wing extremist ideologies, although this still needs to be further examined.

Among the dead are two foreigners, a person from Great Britain and an Austrian. Among the numerous injured are five people from Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Austria and Russia.