Kraków shooting suspect dies in hospital as Poland mourns six victims

The 24-year-old man accused of opening fire on Kraków's Main Market Square has died in hospital, Polish authorities said on Monday, after he was wounded in a shootout with police. Prosecutors had already opened a terrorism investigation into the attack, which killed six people, including a Briton, and injured 17 others. The gunman came from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, a town in southeastern Poland.

Saturday's attack stunned Poland's second-largest city and triggered two days of national mourning. Police said the three people found dead at the gunman's home after the shooting were his father, 53, his mother, 52, and his 21-year-old sister. Five of the wounded are foreign nationals from Britain, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Russia. Two police officers were also hurt, one of them seriously.

Even with the suspect dead, justice minister Waldemar Zurek said the investigation will press on, with the goal of establishing whether he acted alone. Main Market Square reopened on Sunday evening after officers lifted a security cordon around the scene.

Interior minister Marcin Kierwiński had described the suspect as fascinated by far-right ideologies and holding “very radical” and “ultra-nationalistic” views. The government then appeared to pull back from that framing as nationalist opposition politicians challenged the evidence behind it. “Until the matter is fully clarified and the authorities are in possession of complete information, it is best to refrain from making comments, even if there are some initial indications,” government spokesperson Adam Szlapka told TVN24.

Elsewhere in Europe, a Ukrainian drone strike overnight hit Russia's Kirishi oil refinery in the Leningrad region, regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said. He wrote on Telegram that a fire broke out and was later extinguished, and that a woman was killed by falling drone debris. The refinery, roughly 800km from the Ukrainian border, has been hit by several Ukrainian drone attacks this year and is reported to produce more than 6% of Russia's total refined oil.