Polish prosecutors have opened a terror investigation into the shooting in Krakow.
Xinhua News Agency, Warsaw, November 8 (Reporter Yue Yuanyuan) According to a report by the Polish News Agency on the 8th, the Polish National Prosecutor's Office issued a statement on the same day that it opened an investigation into the shooting incident that took place in Krakow on the 7th and classified it as a crime of a terrorist nature. The investigation also deals with the murder of three people in a house in central and southern Poland. The prosecutor said that the evidence available today shows that both cases were committed by the same person.
The prosecutor confirmed that day that the three victims in the aforementioned house were the parents and sister of the shooter in the Krakow shooting. The investigators found seven guns and a large amount of ammunition in the residence, which together with the guns seized at the shooting scene in Krakow totaled 11 guns. The number of guns the gunman and his father were allowed to have were 2 and 9 respectively.
The prosecutor plans to begin autopsies on the nine victims in both cases on the morning of the 9th, and the relevant work may take two days.
According to a report by the Polish news network Onet on the 8th. The local police stated that the three deceased found in the aforementioned residence all suffered from gunshot wounds, and the specific process of death is still under investigation. Prosecutors said investigators interviewed witnesses who knew the shooter's family and removed surveillance videos, electronic storage devices and transcripts from the residence.
The website quoted the prosecutor as saying that the shooter is now in critical condition. If he survives, the prosecutor will decide on the arrangements for the continuation of the investigation concerning him on the 9th.
In the afternoon of 7 local time, a man with a gun drove into Krakow's main square and shot random passers-by. The police then wounded him and arrested him. Polish officials reported on the evening of the 7th that the shooting left 6 dead and 16 wounded, including two policemen and the attacker himself.
On the evening of the 8th on the 8th, the Polish media quoted a police spokesman as saying that the on-site investigation of the central square in Krakow was finished and the square was reopened.