Krakow, November 7: The Krakow shooting tragedy deepened on Saturday night when Prime Minister Donald Tusk said authorities had found the bodies of three close family members of the suspect inside his home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a city about 150 km (93 miles) northeast of Krakow, the Associated Press reported. The three found at the home were two women and a man. 'We have the next acts of this tragedy,' Mr Tusk told reporters.

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Three bodies at the Ostrowiec home

Spain's Democrata, reporting the same Saturday-night announcement, said Mr Tusk announced the discovery of three more bodies in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, in the attacker's family home, and that police corroborated that the bodies of three people — two women and one man — had been found in the residence of the man detained in Krakow. Police have not officially said how or when the three at the home died, and investigators are still establishing the sequence of events; some international reports have identified the three as the suspect's mother, father and sister and say they were killed earlier on Saturday, but Polish authorities quoted by the AP described them only as close family members, and that identification has not been officially confirmed in the AP report.

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The home discovery came while police were searching the suspect's home, a step the interior minister had announced at the earlier evening news conference reported by Awaaz Punjab. The suspect himself is from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, according to Polish media and police sources cited in earlier reporting.

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British citizen among the six killed in the square

A British citizen is among the six people killed in the square, Poland's national police chief Marek Boron has said, according to Wirtualna Polska reporting carried by Energy Radio in its 9 p.m. UK update. At the news conference reported by the AP, authorities said four women and two men were killed in the Krakow attack, at least three of the women were Polish, and one of the dead was a UK citizen; police were still trying to identify the other two people killed. The British victim has not been named, and the UK Foreign Office had not yet commented in Energy Radio's update. Anyone worried about a British national in Krakow can call the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 020 7008 5000, Energy Radio said.

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The AP said 13 of the 16 people injured were taken to hospital with serious injuries and one of them was a foreign citizen, and that two wounded people had already been released from medical treatment within hours of the attack. Energy Radio's 8 p.m. UK update said five of the injured are foreigners; their nationalities had not been released in that update. Two police officers were among the wounded, one of them seriously after being hit by three bullets, as reported earlier.

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Tusk calls it terrorism

Prime Minister Donald Tusk, speaking in Krakow after a meeting with the security services, called the attack terrorism: 'Until now, we have not had such drastic cases of terrorism in Poland,' Energy Radio reported. He said he was convinced that 'any possible supporters of the attacker will be detained very quickly', said officers were entering the attacker's home, and confirmed the attacker's car posed no explosive threat. Poland's defence minister had earlier called the shooting an 'act of terror' on the people of Krakow, as Awaaz Punjab reported in the previous story.

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The wider facts of the attack are unchanged from earlier verified reporting: at around 3 p.m. local time on Saturday, a gunman drove to multiple spots in and around the Main Market Square (Rynek Glowny) and opened fire at random people with an automatic weapon, Krakow police said. Police spokeswoman Katarzyna Cislo told TVN24 he wore military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest and used a military-type long gun, other weapons and ammunition were found in his car, and he kept firing at police even after being shot himself before he was detained a short distance away and taken to hospital for surgery. The AP described the suspect as a 25-year-old Polish man with 'ultranationalistic' views; Polish media and police sources have named him unofficially as Michal O., 24, a lathe operator from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski who held a sporting firearms permit — the reported ages differ between sources, as noted in our earlier report. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said the man holds 'very radical' views and was 'fascinated by far-right ideologies'; no final motive has been officially announced.

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The AP also reported, citing the animal rights group OTOZ Animals, that the attacker shot two horses used for the square's tourist carriages; both animals are alive, one grazed by a bullet and the other hit in the leg.

Source: Associated Press via Glasgow Times

Security steps, mourning and what happens next

Krakow mayor Lukasz Gibala said the city will be in official mourning until Wednesday and vowed Krakow will remain open to visitors: 'The square will belong to us again,' he said in a video posted to X, the AP reported. Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski announced increased security measures, including road barriers, along main streets in the old town in the Polish capital after the attack. Poland's president had earlier begun the formal process to declare national mourning on Sunday, November 8 and Monday, November 9, as reported in our previous story.

Source: Associated Press via Glasgow Times

What happens next: police are still identifying the remaining two people killed in the square, investigators are establishing how and when the three people at the Ostrowiec home died and whether the suspect killed them before driving to Krakow — a link authorities have announced as part of the same tragedy but have not yet formally detailed — and prosecutors are expected to set out charges against the suspect, who remains in hospital under guard. Awaaz Punjab will update this story as Polish police, the prosecutor's office or the prime minister's office publish further verified details.

Our earlier report on the toll rising to six is here: Read the toll-six report