By Jakub Porzycki
They did not mention a motive for the shootings. “Police officers in Krakow intervened, risking their own lives. They acted immediately.
Police said they started to receive reports at around 3 p.m. that an assailant had opened fire from a car and had shot randomly at people in the square in Poland’s second-largest city, a popular tourist destination.
Fifteen others were wounded including two police officers who were hurt – one of them seriously – in a shootout with the suspect, who police said wore “military-style” clothes and had military weapons. Krakow police said on X that the alleged gunman was a 24-year-old Polish citizen, adding: “The only known perpetrator of the incident is in police custody”. “If we had been two minutes earlier, we might have been shot,” he said. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X he was being kept informed about the incident in the historic centre of Krakow, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He later headed to Krakow from the capital Warsaw, a government spokesperson said. President Karol Nawrocki said his thoughts were with the victims, those affected and their families. Thanks to their heroic conduct, the assailant was quickly apprehended,” Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said on X.
KRAKOW, – A gunman shooting randomly from a car killed four women and two men in the main square of the southern Polish city of Krakow on Saturday, officials said, before police shot and arrested the suspect.
