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Krakow mass shooting assailant died in hospital, Polish police say

Reuters
Krakow mass shooting assailant died in hospital, Polish police say

WARSAW, Nov 9 (Reuters) - ‌A young gunman who killed six people in central ​Krakow ‌on Saturday in Poland's unprecedented mass ‌shooting has died in hospital, police said early on Monday.

Very ‌little information has come out about the shooter, who was shot by police officers and arrested minutes after ⁠he opened fire at people ‌at Krakow's historic main ⁠square from his car.

The government said ​the assailant, a 24-year-old from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a town of ​just under 60,000 in southeastern ​Poland, ‌may have been inspired by far-right ​ideology, without providing further details.

"There ⁠were many different emblems ‌on the ​perpetrator’s clothing that ​have been partially examined and interpreted," Karolina Galecka, an interior ministry spokeswoman, told radio TOK FM on ‌Monday.

"These patches were associated with various motifs that are currently being ‌analyzed ​by specialists," she added, declining to comment further as the investigation is ongoing.

(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki; Editing by ‌Clarence Fernandez and Thomas Derpinghaus)