Six killed in Kraków Main Market shooting; attacker dies, three more found dead

Attack on the Main Market

On Saturday, 7 November, a few minutes after 15:00, an armed man drove a black Subaru onto the Main Market in Kraków and opened fire on passers-by, including people in the area of Sławkowska Street. He then drove along Grodzka Street in the direction of Wawel. At Plac Wszystkich Świętych a bullet shattered a window in the cab of a line 1 tram, but none of its passengers were injured. Six people were killed in Kraków, and national police commander Marek Boroń said one of the victims was a British citizen. Reports differ on the number of injured: one puts it at 16 people and another at 15, the lower count including two police officers. The higher count includes at least five foreigners and Kraków horse-carriage drivers, and the two wounded officers from the station on the Main Market were the first to reach the scene.

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Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski family flat3

Kraków Main Market

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Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski family flat

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Pursuit and the family flat

Police set off in pursuit along Stradomska Street. At the junction with Dietla Street the Subaru collided with another car, and an exchange of fire followed. A police officer shot the attacker, who was then subdued. Interior and Administration Minister Marcin Kierwiński said officers had intervened about three minutes after receiving the first report. That evening, officers found three bodies in the family flat on Tylna Street in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski: a 53-year-old father, a 52-year-old mother and the attacker's younger sister. All three bore gunshot wounds.

Autopsies and the attacker's death

On Monday, 9 November, prosecutors reported that post-mortems had been completed on nine people, six from Kraków and three from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. The examinations started in the morning at the forensic medicine department of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. The attacker died in hospital early that Monday, and prosecutors said his autopsy would probably take place on Tuesday, 10 November. Prosecutor Eryk Stasielak said a detailed forensic opinion on the examinations could take several weeks to prepare. On Sunday, 8 November, spokesman Tomasz Waszczuk of the Kraków District Prosecutor's Office said the two wounded officers had been woken from a pharmacological coma.