A student killed 15 people and injured several others at a university in Prague, Czech Republic. The attacker also died.
A Armed student killed 15 people and injured several others after unleashing a shooting at a Prague University, in Czech Republic. This was confirmed by the authorities, who stated that they found the body of the attacker in the place where the tragic event occurred.
The police of Czech Republic indicated that the attacker was a student from the Faculty of Arts of Carolina University, where the shooting occurred shortly after 3:00 p.m. (local time). Furthermore, after that, they reported that the attacker was also “removed“.
Initially, the Prague emergency service had reported through the social platform X that 11 people had died, including the attacker, and another 11 were seriously injured. Now the number has risen to fifteen and the area is cordoned off by the police, since it is a busy area because it brings tourists to the Old Town Square.
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Testimonies from witnesses to the shooting in the Czech Republic
Petr Nedoma, director of the Rudolfinum gallery in a concert hall facing Palach Square, told Czech television that he saw the armed assailant. “I saw a young man in the gallery who had a gun in his hand, like an automatic weapon, and he was shooting towards the Manes Bridge. Repeatedly, with some interruptions, then I saw how He shot, raised his hands and threw the gun towards the streetwas there, at the pedestrian crossing,” he said.
Klara, a student, told the news website iDnes.cz that she was among those evacuated from the building by police. Furthermore, she assured that the moment “It was terribly scary.” and “there were a lot of police everywhere.” “They yelled at us with submachine guns and told us to run outside,” he said.
In addition, through an email sent to the staff of the Faculty of Letters of the Carolina University, they notified that there was a armed man in one of its buildings. “Do not go anywhere, if you are in the offices, lock them and place furniture in front of the door, turn off the lights,” the email stated.
Shootings in Czech Republic
The truth is that crimes with firearms are relatively rare in the Czech Republic. In December 2019, a 42-year-old gunman killed six people in the waiting room of a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava before fleeing and fatally shooting himself.
Meanwhile in 2015a man fatally shot eight people and then he committed suicide in a restaurant in Uhersky Brod.
Source: Ambito
