Terrified witnesses described the moment a gunman opened fire in Krakow’s market square, killing six people, including a British national, on Saturday.
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Police said the man drove a car into the market square in Krakow, Poland’s second-largest city and a popular tourist destination, just before 3pm, and started firing randomly at people, who fled in panic.
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Armed officers rushed to the scene and engaged the gunman in a shootout.
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Two officers were injured in the shootout, and one remained in critical condition after suffering three gunshot wounds.
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Four women and two men were killed, Poland’s police chief Marek Boron told reporters in the evening.
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In addition to the Briton, the victims included three Poles.
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The remaining two were yet to be identified.
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At least 16 people were injured, including the suspect, the two police officers, and five foreigners from Britain, Germany, Austria, Portugal and Russia, the interior ministry said.
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The suspect, a 25-year-old Polish citizen who was shot and taken to hospital, had been “influenced by far-right ideology”, Polish interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said.
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Police said in a post on X that “the only known perpetrator of the incident is in custody”.
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They did not give a motive.
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The shooter was wearing military-like clothes and used military-grade weapons.
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“Many weapons and ammunition were found in his vehicle too,” Katarzyna Cislo, a local police spokesperson, said.
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The gunman was in a “stable but very critical condition” after multiple surgeries, a spokesperson for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship office, the regional authority for southern Poland, told Reuters.
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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said that two women and one man were found dead during searches of the suspect’s home.
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They were believed to be his close family, Mr Tusk said.
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Witnesses of the shooting recalled the moment they heard gunshots and ran for cover.
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One person reported hearing “about 20 shots”.
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The market square is typically busy with traditional horse-drawn carriages and is popular with tourists.
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“We were walking to the store and heard gunshots.
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We turned around, people started running, tourists from other countries didn’t know what was happening,” a witness identified as Aleksander told Poland’s Faktowi.
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“We heard about 20 shots.”
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He said he “ran into the store, the lady closed the door, and we waited a moment”.
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“I’ve never witnessed such panic.
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People were running into stores to hide,” he said.
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Caitlin Shasby from Newcastle flew to the city on Saturday and said she heard the shots ringing from her hotel.
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“We heard shots from hotel room but didn’t realise what it was until we received a call from the hotel confirming there had been a shooting,” she told the BBC.
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She said police were outside the hotel “barricading” the street.
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Some witnesses told TV Republika they saw a black Subaru drive up to the market square.
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“I saw the guy, he started loading his machine gun,” one witness told the news station.
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“I don’t think he was firing blindly, these were deliberate shots.
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He had a sort of police mask on and goggles on.
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Then he shot at the church and fled towards Grodzka Street.
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Everyone was running away, people in horse-drawn carriages.”
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One man described how several people cowered for safety in a police station after the shots rang out.
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“I saw shots being fired from the driver’s side window, and smoke was coming out,” the man, who said his name was Konrad, told Interia.
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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.”
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A 67-year-old man called Julek told Reuters that he narrowly missed being shot himself.
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Julek saw a dark car appear suddenly before the driver started shooting at a group of people and drove off.
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“If we had been two minutes earlier, we might have been shot,” he said.
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…and 7 more, not listed.
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