Reports of a shooting on Kraków's Main Market Square circulated on Saturday, 7 November 2026. The Telegram channel NEXTA posted that preliminary information pointed to five people dead after gunfire in the city centre 1.
NEXTA said an unidentified gunman fired on pedestrians from a car. It said the death toll had not been officially confirmed and that police were searching for the attacker. These details come from NEXTA alone; the excerpt available from its post carries only the headline figure 1.
The Conflict Intelligence Team, also on Telegram, described a drive-by shooting in Kraków. It wrote that Polish police said the attacker or attackers targeted people at random, and that several people were dead and wounded 2. That post does not give a number of dead. Neither post, as available, links the claims to a named police statement.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he was receiving updates from the interior minister, according to the account of events circulating in these reports. The material does not include his statement directly, and no motive has been reported.
The number of injured people has not been reported. The two accounts agree that people were killed and wounded, but only NEXTA gives a figure of five dead, and it describes that as preliminary.
The reports came on a day when Russian strikes on Ukraine, including on Kyiv, were also being reported. Nothing in the available material links those events to the Kraków shooting.