Krakow Main Square shooting suspect dies in hospital

A man who is suspected of opening fire on the public in Krakow's Main Square, Poland, killing six people and injuring 15, including two police officers, has died. Among those killed were four Polish citizens, a British citizen and an Austrian citizen.

After exchanging fire with the police, the attacker was wounded, detained and taken to hospital. Doctors had described his condition as critical.

The death of the attacker was announced by the Lesser Poland police on X. "We inform you that the perpetrator of the tragic events died in hospital in the early hours of today," they wrote.

The information was also confirmed by the Lesser Poland voivode, Krakow's region head, Krzysztof Klęczar, on TVN24, a Polish 24/7 news channel. "At 4:30, the perpetrator of the attack died; he died in one of Krakow's hospitals," he said.

He also reported that "the condition of the remaining injured, there are at this moment 15 of them in six Krakow hospitals, remains unchanged".

The attacker was a 24-year-old Polish citizen who lived in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in the Świętokrzyskie region, north of Krakow.

The man had no previous convictions and had not been on record. He held a firearms licence and, as the police reported, he probably fired shots from one of the weapons for which he had a permit.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the shooting — the deadliest in the country since the end of communism in 1989 — an act of "terrorism".