PHOTO: The center of Prague after the shooting
The Prague Fire Department confirmed that several people were killed and a large number of people were injured.
Police did not provide further details about the circumstances or the victims.
🚨 A shooting at a downtown Prague school has left an unspecified number of people dead and injured. The incident reportedly took place at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, near the Czech capital’s Old Town.#shooting #Prague #Czech pic.twitter.com/53nJhWukXH
— International Crisis Room 360 (@ICR360) December 21, 2023
Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakušan told public television that the person who opened the fire has died. According to him, there was no other shooter at the scene and there is no further threat.
The police said that the officers were sent to the shooting in the building on Jan Palach Square, where the Faculty of Philosophy and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design of the Charles University are located.
The mayor of Prague, Bohuslav Svoboda, announced that the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University had been evacuated.
❗️🇨🇿 – #BREAKING: Prague police report people dead, wounded in university shooting.
The shooting took place on the territory of Charles University in the center of Prague. There are dead and wounded. #Czech pic.twitter.com/nGYlxiXde6
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformantofc) December 21, 2023
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, condemned the “senseless violent shooting that claimed the lives of several people today”.
French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed solidarity with the Czech people, as did many other European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Although mass shootings are not common in the Czech Republic, several incidents have rocked the country in recent years.
In 2015, in the southeastern city of Uherski Brod, a 63-year-old man shot dead seven men and a woman in a restaurant before shooting himself.
In 2019, a man killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the city of Ostrava, and another woman died a few days later. About three hours after the attack, the man shot himself.
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