A shooting at Charles University in Prague this Thursday caused unknown number of dead and injuredCzech police reported this.
“An unknown person opened fire shortly after 15:00 at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague, on Jan Palach Square, in the heart of the capital, Radio Prague International reported.
He added that in place there are dead and a significant number of wounded and that, despite the fact that law enforcement forces arrived at the scene, the person who fired the shots was armed long-barreled shotgun with optical sightcontinued filming.
The Metropolitan Police announced on social media that areas around the scene were closed.
Reports BBC they approve The shooter “eliminated”.
An email addressed to the staff of the Faculty of Literature at Karolinska University, to which he had access. Reuterspreviously reported what happened armed man in one of his buildings and asked 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 email said.
User X posted a photo of a group of students hiding by crouching on the ledge of a building.
“According to preliminary information, the shooter should be dead, there are dead and wounded on the spot, I won’t guess the final figure now,” he said. Minister of Internal Affairs Vit Rakusanon Czech television.
He Prime Minister Petr Fialacanceled a trip to the east of the country and was heading to Prague, as he said in X.
gun crimes relatively rare in the Czech Republic. In December 2019, a 42-year-old gunman killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava before fleeing and fatally shooting himself, police said.
In 2015, a man fatally shot eight people and then committed suicide in a restaurant in Uherský Brod.
Additional information in progress
(according to information from EFE, Reuters, Europe Press And BBC)