WARSAW, Nov 9 — Poland is facing a week of political tensions after the deadliest shooting in decades shattered residents’ sense of security in the deeply divided nation.
The country had been spared from such attacks and was unaccustomed to everyday violence until Saturday, when a gunman opened fire at random in the historic market square of Krakow, the country’s second city.
Six people, including two foreigners, were killed, and about 15 others were wounded, in Poland’s worst fatal shooting since the end of communism in 1989.
The gunman is suspected to have killed nine people in all after the bodies of three people — his parents and sister — were found at their home two hours’ drive from Krakow. Police announced on Monday that the suspect had died in hospital.
