Scout, 19, ran to wounded Kraków officers before the surgeons did

In the chaos after the attack in central Kraków, one of the first people to reach the wounded police officers was not a medic. He was a 19-year-old scout and student from Wodzisław Śląski, a town in southern Poland.

According to the account, he ran up to the injured officers even before the well-known surgeons who were also at the scene. For his mother, that was the moment her "heart broke".

His story has surfaced as Poland keeps coming to terms with the shooting on Kraków's Main Square. Earlier this week Poles donated more than €1 million within hours for the officers who stopped the gunman, who later died in hospital.

The young man's reaction is one more example of people who did not look away when others needed help. Investigators are still working to establish what drove the attacker.