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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Nov 8

Krakow Officers Emerge From Comas After 6 Killed, as Poland Probes Far-Right Motive

Updated

Updated · bbc.co.uk · Nov 8

Krakow Officers Emerge From Comas After 6 Killed, as Poland Probes Far-Right Motive

Q: What dark secrets lie in the suspect's family home where three more bodies were discovered before the deadly Kraków rampage?

The “dark secret” appears to be that three of the suspect’s close relatives were found dead in the family home before or around the time of the Kraków attack, and investigators are examining whether he killed them as part of the same rampage. Police searched the family apartment in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, about 93 miles northeast of Kraków, after the shooting in the city center. Inside, they found the bodies of a man and two women, widely identified by authorities and multiple reports as the suspect’s father, mother and 21-year-old sister. Police said the victims appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds. The home also yielded a significant weapons cache. Reports say officers seized seven firearms there, adding to weapons and ammunition already recovered from the suspect’s car in Kraków. Some officials said the father legally owned more than 10 guns and that both father and son had gun permits; media reports also linked the family to a shooting club. What remains unclear is the exact timing of the relatives’ deaths, the sequence of events inside the home, and whether anyone else had any role. Prosecutors have said the suspect already faces murder charges over the six killings in Kraków, and those charges could rise if investigators confirm he was also responsible for the three deaths at home. So far, the evidence points to a second crime scene that may reveal the attack was not a spontaneous outburst, but a broader, premeditated act of mass violence.

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Two Krakow police officers wounded while subduing Saturday’s gunman emerged from comas on Sunday, after Prime Minister Donald Tusk praised them as heroes who prevented more deaths.
Prosecutors opened a terror investigation as ministers said the 24-year-old suspect—still in critical condition—appeared driven by far-right and ultra-nationalist beliefs.
Six people were killed and 15 injured in the three-minute attack near Main Market Square, including a British man and an Austrian woman alongside four Poles.
Street surgeons Michal Pędziwiatr and Mateusz Wierdak said they treated the suspect and victims on the scene, with Wierdak credited with saving an officer shot in the chest before ambulances arrived.
Police later found the bodies of the suspect’s parents and sister at his home, while Krakow reopened the square Sunday evening after investigators lifted the cordon.