PRAGUE: A mass taking pictures at a Prague college on Thursday (Dec 21) left 15 folks useless – together with the gunman – and a number of other extra significantly wounded, the Czech capital’s emergency providers division stated on social platform X.
Czech police stated shortly after 3.00pm native time that it was responding to a faculty taking pictures at Prague’s Jan Palach Sq., earlier than reporting it had “eradicated” the shooter.
“The whole constructing is presently 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”.
“Do not 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 gaggle of scholars, hiding crouched on a ledge of the constructing.
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 well-liked road main vacationers to Previous City Sq..