Krakow shooting suspect dies, says Poland’s police

The alleged perpetrator of a deadly weekend shooting spree in Krakow has died, Polish police said on Monday, two days after he was critically wounded in a shootout with officers.

“We inform you that the perpetrator of the tragic events died this morning in the hospital,” regional police said in a post on X of the 24-year-old Polish man who allegedly opened fire on Saturday in central Krakow, killing six people.

Authorities said the man had been “fascinated by far-right ideologies”, and prime minister Donald Tusk called the shooting – the deadliest in the country since the end of communism in 1989 – an act of “terrorism”.

Six people, including two foreigners, were killed in the shooting spree, and about 15 others were wounded, according to authorities.

The gunman is suspected to have killed nine people in all after the bodies of three people – his parents and sister – were found at their home two hours’ drive from Krakow.