Gunman with far-right views who killed 6 in Poland shooting rampage dies in hospital, police say

The man who opened fire in a public square, killing six people in a suspected far-right terror attack in Kraków, Poland, has died, police said early Monday.

The man, 24, was shot by police during Saturday’s midday rampage in Main Market Square, the historic center of Poland’s second-largest city. He died in a hospital having been in critical condition since the attack and undergoing several operations.

More than a dozen others, including two police officers, were injured. The two officers were in “serious” condition, regional official Krzysztof Jan Klęczar said Sunday.

Authorities also found the bodies of the shooter’s sister, mother and father at the family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, about 90 miles northeast of Kraków.

Very little information has come out about the shooter, but Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said he used an automatic rifle to carry out the attack and that he “was fascinated by far-right ideologies.”

However, officials appeared to backtrack from that characterization amid an increasingly bitter political dispute.

The nationalist opposition questioned the grounds on which the motive was established, with Law & Justice party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski saying the claims were a “blatant lie.”

National Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Przemyslaw Nowak told a news conference…

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