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Man accused of killing 6 in far-right shooting rampage dies in hospital, Polish police say

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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.

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.

The gunman “acted with the aim of seriously intimidating a large number of people, making this a terrorist offence,” Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said on X.

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 the earlier comments as nationalist opposition politicians questioned the grounds on which the interior minister had said far-right ideology was the motive.

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