An unknown individual stabbed provincial councilman and former mayor of the eastern city of Siedlce, Wojciech Kudelski, after a morning mass that the local politician attended.

The man attacked around 8 am using a sharp object, the police reported, adding that the individual fled the crime scene. “Surveillance camera footage is being analysed,” said the police spokesperson.



Mr Kudelski was transported to a hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. According to the doctors, a life-saving operation had to be performed, however, the patient’s condition is currently stabilising.



“The wound was sustained beneath the ribcage. It was a wound which directly endangered the life of the patient. Were it not for the operation it might have ended very badly. He is in the care of the anaesthetists, his condition is stabilising, he is conscious and breathing and his heart is working,” said Dr Mariusz Mioduski, the deputy director of the hospital where the patient is being cared for.



Wojciech Kudelski was the mayor of Siedlce from 2006 to 2018. In 2018, he was elected the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party councilman of the Mazowieckie provincial council.