Police seek motive in Poland mall stabbings
A spokesman for Poland’s national police says investigators don’t yet know why a man attacked shoppers at a mall with a knife, killing one person and wounding seven others.
Police spokesman Mariusz Ciarka said the 27-year-old Polish man wasn’t drunk when he attacked people at the VIVO! mall in his hometown in southern Poland, Stalowa Wola. He says blood tests are being done to determine if he was under the influence of drugs.
Ciarka says the suspect acted “irrationally” and his motives were not known. He had not been known to the police before the attack.
A 50-year-old woman died in the hospital and seven others remained hospitalized after the man allegedly stabbed them in the back.
He was apprehended by other shoppers and held until officers arrived and took him into custody.
UPDATES:
10:35 a.m.: Updated with a statement from a police spokesman.
This story was originally posted at 8:30 a.m.
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