Man commits suicide after gun attack on neighbor's son

A fifty-five year old Płock resident, Zdzisław G., shot and wounded his 18-year-old neighbor with a sawn-off hunting rifle. The man retreated to his apartment in the city center and shot at policemen who tried to negotiate his surrender. "Fortunately nobody else has been hurt," said Magdalena Siczek from the local police department. After an hour of unsuccessful attempts to calm the aggressor down, an anti-terrorist squad from Warsaw was called in. Before the special forces had a chance to act, local policemen entered the apartment through a window, to find the man dead, after he shoot himself in the stomach. Zdzisław G. had been previously known to the police for theft. It is presumed that his assault was connected to an argument with the parents of the injured boy. The latter is in hospital and while his life is not endangered, doctors are trying to save his arm. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7; Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) M.K.