Citizens Of Six Countries Among Victims Of Terrorist Attack In Kraków

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) Sunday and Monday, November 8–9, have been declared days of national mourning in Poland, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

According to updated information from Małopolska Governor Krzysztof Klęczar, the six people killed included three Polish women aged 61, 47 and 53, as well as a 50-year-old Polish man. A 32-year-old British citizen and a 51-year-old foreign woman, whose nationality has not yet been disclosed by local authorities, were also killed.

Sixteen people were injured in the shooting. They included 11 Polish citizens and five foreign nationals from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Russia, Germany and Austria. All the injured were taken to six hospitals in Kraków.

The governor said that 14 of them were in stable condition, while one person remained in critical condition. The 24-year-old attacker was also in critical condition and had undergone several operations overnight.

Two police officers wounded during the confrontation with the attacker also remain in serious condition. One has been brought out of a medically induced coma, while the other is still in a coma.

Police have called on the public to donate blood for seriously injured officer Jakub Kulik, who has the rare AB-positive blood type. General Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, has also appealed to people to donate blood for the injured officers and other victims.

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Meanwhile, police in the Świętokrzyskie region reported that the three people whose bodies were found on Saturday evening in the attacker's apartment in central Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski were the parents and sister of the 24-year-old man detained in Kraków. Preliminary examinations revealed gunshot wounds on their bodies. The deceased were a 53-year-old man and two women aged 52 and 21. Their bodies have been taken for further forensic examination.

The Kraków Prosecutor's Office has classified the attack as a terrorist crime. Investigators are continuing to examine the crime scenes and collect evidence. The terrorist attack in Kraków and the killing of the family in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski will be combined into a single investigation.

As investigators carry out further forensic procedures, police once again restricted access to Kraków's Main Market Square and the surrounding streets on Sunday.

Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs has stepped up monitoring of the information space to detect disinformation related to the attack. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski said that the relevant services were monitoring the information environment under crisis-response procedures following the terrorist attack in Kraków.

A two-day national mourning period for the victims of the Kraków attack began in Poland at midnight on Sunday.

As Ukrinform reported, at around 15:00, a man who drove onto Kraków's Main Market Square began shooting at random passers-by from his car. Updated information identified the attacker as 24-year-old Michał O., a lathe operator who lived in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

The death toll from the terrorist attack in central Kraków rose to six. Twelve of the injured were reported to be in very serious condition.

At a crisis management meeting in Kraków on Saturday evening, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the bodies of two women and a man had been found in the apartment of the attacker, who may have been his relatives.

Photo: lublin112 / illustrative photo

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