A shooter killed 14 folks and injured dozens extra in a violent assault at Charles College in Prague on Thursday afternoon earlier than being killed himself, in response to Czech police.
“The shooter has been eradicated!!! All the [university] constructing is at the moment being evacuated and there are a number of useless and dozens injured,” Czech police reported Thursday afternoon.
“The intervention on the web site remains to be ongoing. In the intervening time we are able to verify greater than 15 useless and dozens injured. We have now no data right now that the perpetrator is linked to any terrorist group,” the police stated, earlier than revising the variety of mortalities downward to 14.
The injured folks have been cleared from the assault web site, however “a smaller variety of crews stay on web site as a precaution,” Prague’s Medical Rescue Providers reported.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala will convene an “extraordinary assembly of the federal government” on Thursday night, adopted by a press convention.
The shooter’s motive shouldn’t be clear at this level.
European leaders together with Fee President Ursula von der Leyen expressed condolences following the assault.
