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 faculty taking pictures at Prague’s Jan Palach Sq., earlier than reporting the shooter was “eradicated”.
Officers guard a avenue 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
“All the constructing is at present being evacuated and there are a number of useless and tens of injured on the web site,” police stated on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
An e mail despatched to workers and college students on the School of Arts of Charles College, seen by Reuters, had stated a shooter was in one in all its buildings and had informed workers to “keep put”.
“Don’t go wherever, in the event you’re within the workplaces, 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 School of Charles College in downtown Prague.Credit score: AP
The police have sealed off the sq. and the world 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the college constructing, which is situated in a busy a part of city that has a well-liked avenue main vacationers to Outdated City Sq.
“In response to preliminary data, the shooter himself must be useless, there are useless and wounded on web site, I cannot speculate now in regards to the remaining quantity,” Inside Minister Vit Rakusan stated on Czech Tv.
