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 stated shortly after 3pm, native time, that it was responding to a college taking pictures at Prague’s Jan Palach Sq., earlier than reporting the shooter was “eradicated”.
Officers guard a road in downtown Prague, Czech police say a taking pictures in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified variety of folks and wounded others.Credit score: AP
“Your complete constructing is at present being evacuated and there are a number of lifeless and tens of injured on the web site,” police stated on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
An e-mail despatched to employees and college students on the College of Arts of Charles College, seen by Reuters, had stated a shooter was in one in every of its buildings and had instructed employees to “keep put”.
“Don’t go wherever, when you’re within the places of work, lock them and place furnishings in entrance of the door, flip off the lights,” the e-mail stated.
One X consumer posted a photograph of a bunch of scholars, hiding crouched on a ledge of the constructing.
Law enforcement officials 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to the college constructing, which is situated in a busy a part of city that has a preferred road main vacationers to Outdated City Sq.
“In line with preliminary info, the shooter himself ought to be lifeless, there are lifeless and wounded on web site, I cannot speculate now in regards to the last quantity,” Inside Minister Vit Rakusan stated on Czech Tv.