A shooter at a Prague college killed a number of folks and injured dozens of others on Thursday earlier than being “eliminated” by police.
The Prague emergency providers division mentioned on social platform X that 11 folks had been killed together with the gunman and 11 have been critically wounded.
Czech police mentioned shortly after 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) that it was responding to a college capturing at Prague’s Jan Palach Square, earlier than reporting it had “eliminated” the shooter.
An e-mail despatched to workers and college students on the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, seen by Reuters, had mentioned a shooter was in considered one of its buildings and had advised workers to “stay put”.
“Don’t go anywhere, if you’re in the offices, lock them and place furniture in front of the door, turn off the lights,” the e-mail mentioned.
One X person posted a photograph of a bunch of scholars, hiding crouched on a ledge of the constructing.
The police have sealed off the sq. and the world adjoining to the college constructing, which is positioned in a busy a part of city that has a well-liked road main vacationers to Old Town Square
Prime Minister Petr Fiala cancelled his journey to the east of the nation and was en path to Prague, he mentioned on X.
Gun crime is comparatively uncommon within the Czech Republic. In December 2019, a 42-year-old gunman killed six folks at a hospital ready room within the japanese Czech metropolis of Ostrava earlier than fleeing and fatally capturing himself, police mentioned.
In 2015, a person fatally shot eight folks after which killed himself at a restaurant in Uhersky Brod.
