Krakow Mass Shooting Poland in Disbelief at Six Dead
Scenes of blood and dead scattered throughout the historic centre of one of Poland’s key tourist attractions stunned a nation that has long seen itself as safer than Western European countries that have seen such assaults in the past.
The mass shooting of unprecedented scale adds to the sense of fear established by a run of school stabbings in October, which authorities say was fuelled by violent and extremist content online. Everything points to the fact that the shooter was inspired by far-right ideology, and this will be investigated as well, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski told a news conference.Police officers and Internal Security Agency personnel are on-site, at the scene and at the individual’s family home.
Four ladies and two men were killed in the incident in the city centre, according to Polish authorities. Seventeen others, including two police officers, were wounded.
One of the dead identified so far was a British citizen, police said. The five foreign nationals injured in the incident were from Austria, Germany, Portugal, Russia and Britain, an Interior Ministry official said.
The injured police officers were in stable condition after surgery, a spokesman for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship office, the southern region where Krakow is located, told Reuters shortly after midnight local time. The justice minister appealed for blood donations for one of the wounded officers.
The alleged shooter was in “stable but very critical condition” following many surgeries, the official said. Videos aired on the internet had shown the assailant tumbling to the ground during a close-range battle with police officers firing firearms.
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