A five-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in the western Polish city of Poznań.
The children were on a walk in the city’s Łazarz neighbourhood when a 71-year-old man approached the group and stabbed one of them in the chest around 10 a.m. local time. A passer-by managed to disarm the attacker, and an off-duty policewoman apprehended the assailant.
Following the attack, the boy received immediate attention at the scene but died after being rushed to a hospital. The motives behind the incident remain under investigation.
Source – Polskie Radio
Memorial events have been held in Poland on Thursday to pay tribute to Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Roman Catholic priest who was killed by communist secret police in the 1980s.
Yesterday marked 39 years since Popiełuszko, a staunch supporter of Poland’s Solidarity freedom movement, was brutally murdered at the age of 37. He strongly supported Poland’s Solidarity trade union in the 1980s, serving as chaplain to workers at a Warsaw steel mill in 1980 and 1981. In his homilies, he condemned violations of human rights and called for freedom and dignity for working people.
On October 19th, 1984, he was abducted, then tortured and murdered by communist secret police officers. He has since been recognised as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and was made a saint in 2010.
Source – Polskie Radio
Salaries in Poland have increased by 10.3% year on year in September and employment in the country remains stable, according to the country’s statistics office.
The average gross Polish monthly wage last month was PLN 7,379.88 which equates to around EUR 1,660 or USD 1,750.
The Family and Social Policy Minister this month estimated that Poland’s unemployment rate stayed flat at 5 percent in September, unchanged from August. There were fewer than 800,000 people without jobs across the nation at the end of September, down by around 5,000 from a month earlier, according to the government.
Source – Polskie Radio
The reconstruction of the railway station in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz which started in the summer of 2021 has been completed, according to officials. A decision on when the station will reopen is yet to be made.
The reconstruction of the station was supposed to take just over a year and be completed at the end of 2022. However, there were delays and the investment was also postponed for ten months. Polish State Railways did not provide the reasons for the delays or the approximate opening date of the facility.
Source – Radio Gdańsk
Weather
Today will be a rainy day in a fresh breeze with temperatures of 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day and 4 degrees overnight. Tomorrow will turn a little more sunny with showers in a moderate breeze and temperatures of 12 degrees during the day and 6 degrees overnight.
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