Poland calls Krakow shooting rampage 'terrorist' attack

Kraków, Poland Poland on Sunday (November 88, 2026) launched a terrorism probe as mourners brought candles and flowers to Krakow's Main Market Square in tribute to six people killed by a gunman who authorities said was "fascinated by far-right ideologies". The 24-year-old Polish man opened fire at random on Saturday (November 7) in the historic centre of the country's second city, in what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an act of "terrorism". A British national was among the dead, according to police.

Among the 15 wounded were nationals from Austria, Britain, Germany, Portugal and Russia, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said. Three more bodies were found at the suspect's home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, around 150 kilometres (95 miles) northeast of Krakow. Police said they were his parents and a sister.

The gunman was wounded in a shootout with police and is in critical condition in hospital. The National Prosecutor's Office said it had launched a terrorism investigation. "I'm absolutely devastated," Weronika Filar, 27, a Krakow resident, told AFP on Sunday (November 8).