A member of the emergency service works on the scene of a capturing at Charles College in central Prague on Thursday. Picture by Martin Divisek/EPA-EFE
Dec. 21 (UPI) — Czech police stated a minimum of 14 folks have been killed and 24 extra have been wounded in a capturing at a college in Prague on Thursday. The suspect killed himself, in line with police.
Throughout a Prague press convention, police recognized the assailant as David Okay. Talking, a 24-year-old world historical past pupil at Charles College. Czech Police President Martin Vondrasek stated Talking “bought impressed by an analogous horrible occasion overseas” with out specifying the place that occasion occurred.
At first, authorities had stated 15 folks had been killed within the assaults earlier than later revising the dying toll to 14.
Based on the New York Occasions, Telegram social media messages in Russian posted beneath the identify David Kozak have been being investigated.
A kind of messages was posted three days after a woman — Alina Afanaskina — killed two classmates with a shotgun in Bryansk this month.
“I used to be very impressed by Alina … very a lot,” stated one message posted on Dec. 10. The message added, “She actually didn’t kill sufficient. I’ll attempt to repair that.”
Police are nonetheless investigating these messages to find out if, the truth is, they have been posted by Thursday’s Prague college shooter.
Authorities stated they consider the assault was not associated to worldwide terrorism.
The gunman first killed his father at the family home in the town of Kladno, according to Radek Jiroudek, an Interpol Prague police officer in an interview with the New York Times. He then killed himself after shooting the victims at the university.
Czech police said Thursday morning that officers began responding to a shooting at a faculty in Namesti Jan Palach, including the shooter had been “eradicated.”
“The whole constructing is at present being evacuated and there are a number of lifeless and dozens of injured,” police stated.
The Prague Rescue Service stated along with the 14 deaths that nine people were “significantly injured,” as many as six have been “reasonably injured” and 10 extra have been “barely injured.”
The investigation, together with figuring out all of the victims, continues to be underway. Inside Minister Vit Rakusan informed Czech public tv the one that fired the pictures was lifeless and that there have been no different suspects on the scene.
He stated, “It is an unimaginable tragedy, it is one thing horrible, it impacts younger folks, it is simply earlier than the Christmas holidays. It’s one thing that the Czech Republic has not skilled.”
The capturing occurred at Charles College’s School of Arts, close to the Czech capital’s Outdated City.
Police stated some college students locked themselves in rooms earlier than the shooter arrived.
Jakob Weizman, who’s learning on the college, posted on X that he was barricaded in a classroom.
“At the moment caught inside my classroom in Prague. Shooter is lifeless, however we’re ready to be evacuated. Praying to make it out alive. Locked the door earlier than the shooter tried to open it.”
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