Police have launched bodycam footage of officers storming a college constructing throughout their response to a capturing in Prague which killed 14 folks.
The footage exhibits armed officers getting into a constructing and members of the general public fleeing the scene at Charles University in Prague on Thursday.
The gunman – named in Czech media as 24-year-old David Kozak – opened fireplace within the philosophy division.
At a press convention at present, Petr Matejcek, director of the police regional headquarters in Prague, mentioned they obtained a name from somebody who mentioned they had been going to “try and follow the example of the perpetrator and start shooting” however they managed to establish and detain them.
A police spokesperson additionally advised reporters the gunman was believed to be on the higher flooring of the constructing when armed officers arrived on Thursday. They later redirected their search to the roof.
Students on the college had barricaded themselves of their school rooms.
A fringe was put in place across the college constructing, officers added on the press convention.
At one level the gunman shot and injured three folks outdoors the constructing with a long-ranged weapon and the police fired again.
As the police approached his location he was armed with a shotgun and killed himself, Mr Matejcek added.
Officers discovered his physique whereas looking out the constructing.
Mr Matejcek added that “piles of ammunition” in “unbelievable quantities” had been discovered on the scene and that the killing might have been worse with out the pace of the police response.
Officers mentioned they reached the scene inside 4 minutes.
The gunman, who was a pupil on the college, killed at the very least 14 folks and injured 25.
Charles University named one of many victims as Lenka Hlavkova, director of the Institute of Music Science FF UK.
Three international nationals – two from Saudi Arabia and one from the Netherlands – had been amongst these wounded, authorities have mentioned.
No international nationals had been amongst these killed, they added.
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Martin Vondrasek, Prague’s police chief, mentioned the drive believed the suspect killed his father earlier on Thursday in his hometown of Hostoun and had been planning to kill himself, too.
Based on a search of his house, he’s additionally considered a suspect within the killing of one other man and his two-month-old daughter final Friday.
It is the worst mass capturing the nation has suffered.
Saturday can be a nationwide day of mourning to honour the victims, Prime Minister Petr Fiala has mentioned.
President Petr Pavel mentioned there was “helpless anger at the unnecessary loss of so many young lives”.
“I would like to express my sincere condolences to all relatives of the victims, to all who were at this tragic incident,” he added.
Source: information.sky.com”