Prague: A shooter at a Prague college killed a number of folks and injured dozens of others on Thursday earlier than being “eradicated” by police.
Czech police mentioned shortly after 3pm, native time, that it was responding to a college capturing at Prague’s Jan Palach Sq., earlier than reporting the shooter was “eradicated”.
Officers guard a avenue in downtown Prague, Czech police say a capturing in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified variety of folks and wounded others.Credit score: AP
“The complete constructing is at the moment being evacuated and there are a number of useless and tens of injured on the web site,” police mentioned on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
An electronic mail despatched to workers and college students on the College of Arts of Charles College, seen by Reuters, had mentioned a shooter was in considered one of its buildings and had instructed workers to “keep put”.
“Don’t go anyplace, for those who’re within the places of work, lock them and place furnishings in entrance of the door, flip off the lights,” the e-mail mentioned.
One X person posted a photograph of a gaggle of scholars, hiding crouched on a ledge of the constructing.
Cops stand on the balcony of Philosophical College of Charles College in downtown Prague.Credit score: AP
The police have sealed off the sq. and the realm adjoining to the college constructing, which is situated in a busy a part of city that has a well-liked avenue main vacationers to Outdated City Sq.
“Based on preliminary data, the shooter himself ought to be useless, there are useless and wounded on web site, I can’t speculate now in regards to the closing quantity,” Inside Minister Vit Rakusan mentioned on Czech Tv.
