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Poland’s Krakow Square mass shooting suspect dies in hospital amid political controversy

The government said the 24-year-old shooter, Michal Oksinski, may have been inspired by far-right ideology, without providing further details.

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Warsaw: A gunman who killed six people in central Krakow on Saturday in an unprecedented Polish mass shooting died in hospital on Monday, as national shock and grief gave way to an increasingly bitter dispute over his motives.

Very little information has come out about the shooter, who was shot and arrested by police minutes after opening fire from his car in Krakow’s historic main square.

The government had said the assailant, identified by prosecutors as Michal Oksinski, a 24-year-old from the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in southeastern Poland, may have been inspired by far-right ideology, without providing further details.

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