Kraków Terrorist Attack: Foreign Nationals Among Dead And Injured

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński made the announcement at a press conference in Kraków on Saturday evening, Ukrinform's correspondent reports.

Kierwiński said that one foreign national had been identified among the victims, without specifying the person's citizenship.

According to him, 16 people were in hospitals, 13 of them in serious condition. He уточнив that five of the 16 injured were foreign nationals.

Two police officers and the attacker had also been injured. The condition of one law enforcement officer and the attacker was extremely serious.

Read also: Five killed, over ten injured in shooting in central Krakow

According to preliminary investigative findings, the shooter had acted alone.

The interior minister said that the police had no grounds to claim that more than one person had carried out the horrific mass shooting and that it appeared there had been only one attacker. He added that law enforcement officers would review the surveillance camera footage again.

Kierwiński dismissed earlier media reports claiming that the attacker had been a military serviceman. According to him, everything indicated that the man had held very radical views and had been fascinated by far-right ideologies.

The minister said that a large quantity of weapons had been found in the car used by the shooter, and that the shots had been fired from an automatic weapon. Investigative activities are ongoing, while the area around the vehicle is being guarded by police and the fire service.

The interior minister also said that the attacker was a Polish citizen from the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Investigative activities are underway at the house where he lived, requiring the presence of police counterterrorism units.

The minister announced that more information about the motives behind the attack would likely emerge in the coming hours, including whether the suspect had acted under someone's influence or cooperated with anyone.

According to updated information, the attacker was 24-year-old Michał O., who lived in the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and worked as a lathe operator.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has initiated the official procedure for declaring national mourning, which will last on November 8 and 9.

As Ukrinform previously reported, the death toll from the terrorist attack in central Kraków has risen to six.

Photo: Screenshot from @DWS News

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