Krakow shooting: Gunman who killed six people dies in hospital

The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people in a shooting at a historic square in Poland's Krakow on Saturday has died in hospital, police said early on Monday.The suspect was shot by police officers and arrested shortly after opening fire from his car at the city's Main Market Square. Very little information has been released about him, Reuters reported.The Polish government said the attacker, who was from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a town of nearly 60,000 people in southeastern Poland, may have been influenced by far-right ideology."There were many different emblems on the perpetrator’s clothing that have been partially examined and interpreted," Karolina Galecka, a spokesperson for the interior ministry, told radio TOK FM on Monday, as perReuters."These patches were associated with various motifs that are currently being analysed by specialists," she added, declining to provide further details while the investigation continues.What happened in Krakow?The gunman allegedly drove through the city's busy Main Market Square in military-style clothing before opening fire on pedestrians and other targets. The shooting left six people dead, including a British national, and 15 others injured.According to reports by the Daily Mail and The Independent, the suspect was armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and drove a black Subaru through the square, firing at multiple locations. He was also reportedly wearing a bulletproof vest.Police shot and wounded him before taking him into custody. Officers later found additional weapons and ammunition inside his vehicle, according to the reports.Suspected far-right links under investigationInterior minister Marcin Kierwinski said preliminary findings suggested the suspect held radical and ultranationalist views."Everything indicates that he was fascinated by far-right ideologies," Kierwinski said at a news conference.Galecka's remarks about the emblems on his clothing came as investigators examined possible ideological links behind the attack.Neighbours, however, described the suspect as quiet and polite, saying they had not noticed anything unusual about his behaviour.In a separate development, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities had found the bodies of the shooter's parents and sister, with apparent gunshot wounds, at their family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Sources indicated that the shooter could have killed them before heading towards Kraków's Main Market Square. However, Authorities have not publicly established the circumstances of their deaths.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.