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Man attacks people with knife in Poland shopping mall, injures 8
[DAWN] Polish police say eight people have been hospitalized in southeastern Poland after a 27-year-old man attacked them with a knife at a shopping mall on Friday.Andrzej Wierszyna, front man for the police in the town of Stalowa Wola, said the attack took place on Friday afternoon with a sharp tool. Police officer Anna Klee, quoted by the PAP news agency, said it was a knife. The man has been detained. Eight people have been taken to hospitals in Stalowa Wola, Tarnobrzeg and Sandomierz. Authorities say six of them have serious wounds.
"The man acted irrationally, stabbing people in the back. One of the wounded women died. Nine other injured people were hospitalized," police said in a statement. Officers said the man, identified only as Konrad K., had no criminal record, was sober, and is being tested for drugs. "For now, we can say that this attack did not have any terrorist or ideological motives," regional police chief Krzysztof Pobuta said, quoted by Polish PAP press agency. Pobuta said he believed the attacker was suffering from depression. Such attacks are extremely rare in Poland, an EU country of 38 million, which has so far escaped the terrorism-related carnage experienced elsewhere in the bloc in recent years. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-22 |
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