Footage has emerged displaying folks hiding on the ledge of a college constructing amid a mass capturing in central Prague.
At least 15 folks have been killed, based on Czech emergency companies, whereas 24 others have been wounded, based on rescue companies.
Police beforehand mentioned the gunman – a 24-year-old pupil on the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague – had been “eliminated”.
His physique was discovered within the college’s philosophy constructing, based on officers.
Police mentioned the gunman’s father was additionally discovered lifeless earlier immediately.
Officers are nonetheless sweeping the realm, together with the constructing’s balconies, for attainable explosives.
The mass capturing is the deadliest within the Czech Republic in current occasions – the final being in 2019, when seven folks have been killed by a gunman who later took his personal life, within the Ostrava hospital assault.
Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda advised Czech tv: “We always thought that this was a thing that did not
concern us.
“Now it seems that, sadly, our world can also be altering and the issue of the person shooter is rising right here as effectively.”
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The incident passed off within the space of Jan Palach Square, within the metropolis’s Old Town district.
The space is house to The Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design.
Klara, a pupil on the college, advised native media that she was amongst those that police evacuated from the constructing.
“It was terribly scary,” she advised iDnes.cz.
“There were a lot of policemen everywhere, who were shouting at us with submachine guns, telling us to run outside.”
Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda mentioned each the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, had been evacuated throughout the capturing.
Source: information.sky.com”