Polish prosecutors open terrorism probe into Krakow mass shooting
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Polish prosecutors have launched a terrorism investigation after a gunman shot and killed six people and injured 17 others at a market square in Krakow.
The country began two days of mourning on Sunday, a day after a 24-year-old Polish man opened fire at the busy square in the city’s old town.
The Main Market Square was cordoned off, and most of its souvenir shops, restaurants and cafes remained closed, AFP reported.
Mourners lit candles and brought flowers in tribute to the victims slain in the tragedy, considered the country’s deadliest shooting in decades.
A 32-year-old British man and a 51-year-old Austrian woman were killed, Malopolska region’s governor Krzysztof Kleczar told reporters. The four others slain were three Polish women and a Polish man.
The victims also included 15 foreign nationals from Germany, Portugal and Russia, an interior ministry spokesperson said.
Gunman ‘fascinated by far-right ideologies’
Authorities identified the shooter to Polish media as Michal O., who drove to the town square Saturday afternoon and began shooting at random people with a semi-automatic rifle.
Police said he was wearing a mask and dressed in military garb, including a bulletproof vest.
Two police officers who exchanged gunfire with the suspect were also wounded and hospitalized, one of them in serious but stable condition.
The suspect, who was shot by one of the cops, was taken to hospital in critical condition. Authorities said he’s under police guard after undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect was “fascinated by far-right ideologies” and held “ultra-nationalist” views.
The bodies of three people were also found at the gunman’s home in the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. Police identified them as the suspect’s 53-year-old father, his 52-year-old mother and his 21-year-old sister.