Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk heads to the city after four women and two men are killed and more than a dozen people injured
Emergency responders gather after a deadly shooting on November 7, 2026 in the Main Market Square of Krakow, Poland. Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenEmergency responders gather after a deadly shooting on November 7, 2026 in the Main Market Square of Krakow, Poland. Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty ImagesFrom 27m agoA British national was among the six victims killed in the shooting in Krakow, Polish police chief Marek Boron said on Saturday.
“There are six fatalities: four women and two men – three Polish women, one British national, and two people who have not yet been identified,” Boron told reporters.
The UK’s PM Andy Burnham wrote on X: “I’m shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting in Kraków today.
“My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost their lives, everyone injured and all those affected by this senseless violence.
“The United Kingdom stands in solidarity with the people of Poland.”
Two women and one man, most likely members of the family of the Polish gunman who killed six people shooting from a car in the heart of the southern city of Krakow, were found dead inside of his house, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday.
Drone footage appeared to show the dead bodies in the home of the man behind the mass shooting, Tusk said.
Authorities have not yet identified the shooter, but they say he is a 25-year-old Polish man with “ultranationalistic” views.
A British national was among the six victims killed in the shooting in Krakow, Polish police chief Marek Boron said on Saturday.
“There are six fatalities: four women and two men – three Polish women, one British national, and two people who have not yet been identified,” Boron told reporters.
Krakow mayor Łukasz Gibała said the city will be in official mourning until Wednesday, but vowed that Krakow will remain open to visitors despite the tragedy.
“The square will belong to us again,” Gibała said in a video posted to X.
Five foreigners were among wounded victims of the shooting in Poland’s city of Krakow, the interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said after a gunman killed six people in the city’s old town.
Sixteen people were hospitalised following the shooting, “among these sixteen people are five non-Polish nationals,” Kierwinski told reporters. He added that “there is one person, a foreign national” among the killed.
Authorities now say the gunman, who is a Polish citizen, is 25 years old.
View image in fullscreenPoland’s defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz speaks during a press conference after a shooter opened fire in a market square in Krakow. Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/APThe Portuguese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a Portuguese woman was among the injured and was in hospital.
A gunman who killed four women and two men in Krakow on Saturday was fascinated by far-right ideology, the interior minister Marcin Kierwinski told a news briefing.
“Everything points to the fact that the shooter was influenced by far-right ideology, a matter that will also be subject to investigation,” Kierwinski said.
“Police officers are on-site, as are agents from the Internal Security Agency, both here at the scene and at the individual’s family home.”
Police spokesperson Andrzej Fijolek told broadcaster TVN 24 the assailant used an AR-15 rifle and that he had a firearms licence.
Poland’s defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has rejected reports that the gunman was a “soldier in the Polish Armed Forces”.
He said: “The man was not and is not a soldier in the Polish Armed Forces and has never had anything to do with the military.”
View image in fullscreenInvestigators in the Main Market Square in Krakow, where an attack with a firearm took place. Police confirmed six people had died and fifteen more were injured. Photograph: Art Service/EPAView image in fullscreenPolice forces are securing the area after a deadly shooting at the Main Market Square in Krakow, Poland. Photograph: Marek Bednarz/East News/ShutterstockKrakow’s mayor, Lukasz Gilbala, has declared a period of mourning in the city until Wednesday.
A 67-year-old man called Julek told Reuters that he saw a dark car appear suddenly before the driver started shooting at a group of people and drove off.
“If we had been two minutes earlier, we might have been shot,” he said.
An update from Poland’s interior ministry who said two officers were wounded in the shooting, with one seriously injured.
Poland’s PM Donald Tusk wrote on X: “My deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims of the tragic attack in Kraków. The highest praise for the heroic police officers who risked their lives. And a heartfelt appeal to politicians of all stripes: do not exploit this tragedy. We will establish all the circumstances of this crime.”
A man who gave his name as Konrad, and witnessed the shooting, told news website Interia: “I saw shots being fired from the driver’s side window, and smoke was coming out. I ran to the police station in the main market square; when I burst inside, it was full of people hiding on the floor.”
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