PM offers support to impacted Krakow attack families

The family of a 19-year-old man injured in a shooting in Krakow is among those being offered government support.

The attack, in Poland's second largest city, saw a gunman kill six people and injure 15 others in the busy Main Market Square on Saturday.

Among those fatally shot were four Polish citizens, 32-year-old Scottish man James Thomas Campbell and an Austrian woman, with 19-year-old Harry Marchant, from York, currently being treated in hospital for a gunshot wound.

British families impacted by the shooting will be supported "in whatever way we can", the prime minister told the House of Commons.

Discussing the attack during Prime Minister's Questions, Andy Burnham said: "Over the weekend, a British national was sadly killed in Krakow and another injured in the terrible shooting.

"Our thoughts are with the families who we will support in whatever way we can and of course, the UK stands with the people of Poland as I've assured Prime Minister Tusk."

An appeal has been launched to help repatriate Marchant for when he is medically fit to travel.

The organiser stressed the appeal was not to fund his medical care, as this was covered.

However, she said: "We are raising funds to help bring him safely home to the UK once medically fit to travel, this is likely to be by land as flying may not be an option due to injury.

"It is also to support his ongoing mental health needs throughout his future back in the UK."

The online fundraiser has raised more than £9,000 within a day of being created.

The 24-year-old gunman, who is also suspected of killing three members of his own family, was taken to hospital after he was shot by police and later died.

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