Prague University Shooting: A shooter opened fire on a university in Prague’s Jan Palach Square today, leaving multiple people dead and numerous others injured in a horrific event. The police later “eliminated” the attacker, demonstrating their prompt action in response to the concerning circumstance.
Shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT), Czech police announced their response to the school shooting. The sad incident happened at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, and the entire building is currently being evacuated. The police said, via the social media site X (formerly Twitter), that “the entire building is currently being evacuated, and there are several dead and tens of injured at the site.”
Information surfaced when workers and students received an email advising them to exercise cautious. The message advised residents to “stay put” and take precautions including locking doors, barricading with furniture, and shutting off lights after it was discovered that the gunman was inside one of the campus buildings.
Witnesses on X uploaded terrifying photos of kids huddled on a ledge, emphasizing the tense and chaotic environment during the incident. Tourists making their way to Old Town Square were disrupted in this bustling part of town as the police blocked off Jan Palach Square and the surrounding neighborhood.
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Early information was presented by Interior Minister Vit Rakusan, who addressed the audience on Czech Television. He said, “Based on preliminary information, the shooter himself should be dead, there are dead and wounded on site.” I won’t guess the final figure at this time.”
In reaction to the crisis, Prime Minister Petr Fiala decided not to go on his scheduled trip to the east of the country and instead traveled to Prague to personally oversee the situation.
This horrific incident has rocked the Czech Republic, which is renowned for having a comparatively low rate of gun violence. A similar event happened in December 2019 in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, when a 42-year-old gunman opened fire on six people in a hospital waiting room.
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