Five people have died and more than 10 have been injured in a shooting on the main market square in Krakow, police said on Saturday.
“The perpetrator was shot by police officers and is currently being transported to a hospital,” police wrote on X.
A police spokesperson said the force began to receive reports at around 3pm local time (2pm Irish time) that a car from which shots were being fired at random people had entered the square.
He was dressed in military-style clothing and used a military-type firearm, police said.
Police are understood to be among the wounded.
A spokesperson for the local firefighters also told Polsat News that the perpetrator fired a gun from a passing car.
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, in a post on X, said police are investigating the attack.
Krakow is the second-largest city in Poland and roughly 250km from the capital, Warsaw.
This is a breaking story and will be updated. -Reuters/Guardian
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