Poland mourns six killed in Kraków attack

Poland has declared two days of national mourning after six people were killed and 15 injured in a shooting in Kraków on Saturday, mbl.is reported. The head of Poland’s embassy in Iceland said Poles at home and abroad were united in grief.

“Of course we are all in shock. All of us, as one,” Aleksander Kropiwnicki said. “There is no difference between Poles in Poland, Poles in Iceland or Poles anywhere else. We stand together in grief.”

Police are investigating the attack as terrorism. The 24-year-old suspect, Michal Oksinski, had killed his parents and sister before driving into a crowded square in the city and opening fire.

Kropiwnicki said nothing like this had happened before in Poland’s history. He said people may have been too confident that an attack of this kind could not happen in a country generally considered very safe. He urged Poles to stand together despite political or other disagreements and not to let the attack frighten them.

He also thanked Iceland’s Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir for expressing her condolences on X, as well as officials at Iceland’s foreign ministry and foreign diplomats who had sent messages of sympathy. The messages, he said, were encouraging and had given people strength.