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Man attacks people with knife in Poland shopping mall, injures 8
2017-10-22
[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.
An Nahar adds:
The attack, which police said did not appear to be terrorism-related, happened at around 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) before shoppers apprehended the knifeman, and handed him over to officers.

"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

#4  get ACT

Bugger.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-10-22 21:53  

#3  K.

When schizos in Poland get frisky:
"Quick, lock up the steel and the vodka whiskey
So Cossack and gangsta
Attacking the Szlachta
Can't whack us like Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki!"

Or possibly not, in... "Steel Will."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-10-22 21:51  

#2  Konrad K.

Konrad Khunays?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2017-10-22 19:19  

#1  Shoppers took him down. Pack, not herd. That said, in a shopping mall you're likely to find a lot of things to hit guys over the head with.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2017-10-22 07:04  

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