Warsaw [Poland], November 10: The perpetrator of the mass shooting in Krakow's main square at the weekend died of his injuries in hospital on Monday morning, police in Poland said. The 24-year-old was injured when police overpowered him after the fatal attack on Saturday afternoon that left six dead and more than a dozen injured.
Police said 15 injured people remain in hospital, including two officers. Fourteen of those hospitalized are reported to be in stable condition, while one of the injured officers is said to be in serious condition.
The gunman had attacked from a moving car and fired indiscriminately at passers-by in the city's busy market square.
His exact motive remains unclear, but Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski has said that initial findings suggested the suspect held "very radical views" and was fascinated by far-right ideology. Polish prosecutors had classified the mass shooting as a terrorist offence due to the severity of the crime.
Krakow prosecutor Eryk Stasielak told the Polish news agency PAP that investigations into the motive and possible links of the shooter would continue despite the death of the suspect. Stasielak said the man's death only meant that procedural steps directly targeting him, such as pre-trial detention, were dropped.
Otherwise, the investigation would continue. "A large amount of evidence needs to be analysed," he said. The shooter is suspected of first having shot dead three relatives in a residential building in the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, about a two-hour drive north-east of Krakow.
Source: Qatar Tribune