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🚨 🇵🇱 Polish police officer, Jakub Kulik, a former soldier of the 6th Airborne Brigade who recently joined the police, was seriously injured during the tragic events in Kraków. He is now fighting for his life and urgently needs blood donations.

🚨 🇵🇱 Polish Border Guard officers detained a Ukrainian man wanted for criminal threats and a Colombian woman illegally residing in Poland. The man was wanted to serve a prison sentence, while the woman received a deportation order and a 6-month Schengen entry ban.

😡 The attacker's route through Kraków: The entire massacre unfolded in just 30 minutes.

🇵🇱 Senior Police Constables Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański are the names of the two heroic Polish police officers seen exchanging gunfire with the suspected Kraków attacker, Michał O., in the viral video. Two true heroes.

🇵🇱 ❗️ Michał O., the suspected attacker behind the Kraków shooting, reportedly held a firearms licence and was a member of a shooting club in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland.

🚨 Video footage captures the first moments of the shooting in Kraków. People were still unaware of what was unfolding around them. A series of gunshots can be clearly heard in the recording.

Three bodies, two women and one man, have been discovered at the residence of the suspected attacker in Kraków, Poland.

🚨 BREAKING: Poland announces that a British citizen was killed in the attack in Krakow

🇵🇱 ❗️ UPDATE: Both critically injured Polish police officers have undergone surgery. Their condition is now stable.

🚨 BREAKING: Three bodies, two women and one man, have been discovered at the Kraków attacker's home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the victims are believed to be members of the attacker's family.

🚨🇵🇱BREAKING: Three additional bodies have been discovered at the family home of the suspect behind the Kraków attack, bringing the total death toll to nine. According to preliminary reports, the attacker allegedly murdered members of his own family before travelling to Kraków to carry out the attack.

🚨 Poland’s Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński confirmed that one foreign national was among the six people killed in the Kraków shooting, while five other foreign nationals were among the 16 injured. At the time of publication, the victims were reported to include four women and two men.

❗️ An emergency services operation is underway in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. Polish police have confirmed that the suspect behind today's deadly shooting in Kraków is a 24-year-old resident of the city. The exact purpose and scope of the ongoing operation have not yet been officially confirmed.

🚨 UPDATE, NEW DETAILS FROM KRAKÓW According to the Polish Police, just 23 seconds passed between the initial emergency report and the first police patrol beginning its intervention. Authorities have denied reports of a delayed response. The spokesperson for Poland’s National Police Headquarters confirmed that the attacker held a firearms licence and used an AR-15 rifle. Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also confirmed that a Portuguese citizen was among the injured and is currently hospitalized. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has initiated the procedure to declare national mourning on November 8 and 9. The draft regulation is to be submitted to the Prime Minister for countersignature. The death toll remains unchanged at 6 killed and 15 injured.

❗️ @kwpkrakow has denied reports of a person running across the roof of St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków. The video circulating on social media was recorded several hours ago. Police officers reacted to a priest who had stepped onto the terrace of the parish house. The image is a frame taken from the video footage.

❗A frame from video footage showing a Polish police officer, armed with a handgun, exchanging fire face-to-face with the suspected rifle-armed attacker in Kraków today. This officer is a true hero. 🇵🇱

❗️ New surveillance footage has emerged, showing the course of the attack in Kraków. At the time of publication, the reported death toll stands at 6, with 16 others injured. These figures reflect the latest available information and may change as authorities release further updates.

The true hero of this tragedy is the police officer who, despite being wounded, managed to subdue the attacker. He only collapsed to the ground after making sure that no one else was in danger. We may never know how many lives he saved that day. Pray for Kraków. 🇵🇱 🙏

❗️ Concerning reports from Kraków. A person has been spotted moving across the roof of the historic St. Mary’s Basilica. Emergency services are responding at the scene. It remains unclear how the individual reached the roof or what prompted their actions.