Poland in shock after mayor dies from knife attack
Thousands of people marched in rallies across Poland to pay tribute to the centrist mayor of Gdansk who died Monday, a day after being stabbed in the heart at a charity event.
Pawel Adamowicz died in hospital after a day-long fight by doctors to save him.
"Despite all our efforts, we failed to save him," Doctor Tomasz Stefaniak, director of Gdansk University hospital, told Polish media.
Thousands marched in Gdansk, the Baltic city he ran for two decades, and thousands more turned out in the capital Warsaw. There were rallies in a dozen cities around Poland, the PAP news agency reported.
Sunday's attack on Adamowicz, known for his liberal views and opposition to Poland's governing right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, shocked the country.
Polish President Andrzej Duda honoured the "great politician" and announced a day of national mourning to coincide with Adamowicz's funeral, the date of which has yet to be decided.
The European Parliament held a minute of silence on Monday. And ...