Kraków shooting latest updates: six killed and more than a dozen injured, police say

Five foreigners were among wounded victims of the shooting in Poland’s city of Krakow, the interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said after a gunman killed six people in the city’s old town. Sixteen people were hospitalised following the shooting, “among these sixteen people are five non-Polish nationals,” Kierwinski told reporters. He added that “there is one person, a foreign national” among the killed.

Authorities now say the gunman, who is a Polish citizen, is 25 years old.

The Portuguese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a Portuguese woman was among the injured and was in hospital.

A gunman who killed four women and two men in Krakow on Saturday was fascinated by far-right ideology, the interior minister Marcin Kierwinski told a news briefing. “Everything points to the fact that the shooter was influenced by far-right ideology, a matter that will also be subject to investigation,” Kierwinski said.

“Police officers are on-site, as are agents from the Internal Security Agency, both here at the scene and at the individual’s family home.”

Police spokesperson Andrzej Fijolek told broadcaster TVN 24 the assailant used an AR-15 rifle and that he had a firearms licence.

Poland’s defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has rejected reports that the gunman was a “soldier in the Polish Armed Forces”. He said: “The man was not and is not a soldier in the Polish Armed Forces and has never had anything to do with the military.”

Krakow’s mayor, Lukasz Gilbala, has declared a period of mourning in the city until Wednesday.

A 67-year-old man called Julek told Reuters that he saw a dark car appear suddenly before the driver started shooting at a group of people and drove off. “If we had been two minutes earlier, we might have been shot,” he said.

An update from Poland’s interior ministry who said two officers were wounded in the shooting, with one seriously injured.

Poland’s PM Donald Tusk wrote on X: “My deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the tragic attack in Kraków. The highest praise for the heroic police officers who risked their lives. And a heartfelt appeal to politicians of all stripes: do not exploit this tragedy. We will establish all the circumstances of this crime.”

A man who gave his name as Konrad, and witnessed the shooting, told news website Interia: “I saw shots being fired from the driver’s side window, and smoke was coming out. I ran to the police station in the main market square; when I burst inside, it was full of people hiding on the floor.”

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