Investigators are treating the deadly attack in Krakow as a terror incident, prosecutors said on Sunday, after at least six people were killed and 15 injured in a mass shooting authorities suspect was inspired by far-right ideology.
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The gunman drove into the city’s busy Main Market Square at around 3pm on Saturday and began firing at random people from his moving car, the Małopolska police reported.
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Police have only identified the suspect, who was arrested and remains in hospital in a critical condition, as a 24-year-old Polish national from the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski.
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He was wearing tactical attire and carrying a military-style rifle.
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A British national was among the six people killed, police said.
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Five foreign nationals injured in the shooting came from Britain, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Russia, a spokesperson for the interior ministry said.
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the bodies of two women and one man had been found at the suspect’s home, which is just under 125 miles north of Krakow.
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“There are strong indications that they are members of his immediate family,” Mr Tusk told a crisis meeting.
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Interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said their suspect held “very radical views” and “was fascinated by far-right ideologies”.
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Polish media reported that the suspect’s 52-year-old father had 11 registered firearms and he owned the car, a black Subaru, that was used in Saturday’s attack.
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The assailant is believed to have used an AR-15 rifle, according to police, who found a military-style backpack, magazines and a bayonet in the boot of the car, according to Radio Kielce.
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Defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, however, said the suspect wasn’t a soldier and had no links to the military.
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He described the attack as an “act of terror”.
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According to local media, neither the suspect nor his father had a criminal record.
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The Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime was analysing the attacker’s online activity to see whether he belonged to radical groups.
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Police said they started to receive reports at around 3pm 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.
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Unverified footage shared on social media showed people fleeing the scene as shots rang out and police sirens blared.
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Other video showed two people lying on blood-spattered paving stones and bystanders trying to resuscitate them.
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A third person lay motionless on the ground nearby.
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“I saw shots being fired from the driver’s side window, and smoke was coming out.
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I ran to the police station in the main market square; when I burst inside, it was full of people hiding on the floor,” a man who gave his name only as Konrad told news website Interia.
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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.
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Daisy Hersey, from Hove, told BBC News she was in a restaurant with her boyfriend Tyler when the shooting began.
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She said: “Suddenly people started running into the restaurant.
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The door opened, I was sat right by the door, and I just heard these gunshots, but I wasn’t sure if it was gunshots.
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I thought maybe it was the tram or something.
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“The people just piled in, and you could just see the fear on their faces.”
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After it emerged that a British citizen was among the dead, the prime minister Andy Burnham paid tribute to the victims of the attack.
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“I am shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting in Krakow today,” he said.
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“My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost their lives, everyone injured, and those affected by this senseless violence.
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The United Kingdom stands in solidarity with the people of Poland.”
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The Foreign Office advised British nationals in Krakow to “follow the advice of local authorities and monitor local media”.
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In a statement, foreign secretary Ed Miliband said the government “deeply mourns the British national and other victims who have died after the appalling attack in Krakow”.
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“All of my deepest condolences go to the families of the victims.
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The UK stands resolutely in solidarity with the people of Poland,” he said.
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Mr Kierwinski, the interior minister, praised the heroism of officers who apprehended the suspect.
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“The police prevented a much larger massacre that could have otherwise occurred,” he said.
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“They fired shots at the attacker just three minutes after receiving the report.”
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Mayor Łukasz Gibała said Krakow would observe an official mourning period until Wednesday, but vowed that the city would remain open to visitors despite the tragedy.
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“The square will belong to us again,” he said.
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