>Czech Police say people have been killed and injured in a reported shooting near a university in central Prague.
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>Reports suggest the incident occurred at Charles University Faculty of Arts, located on Jan Palach Square.
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>Authorities said the whole of the square and surrounding area was closed.
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>Police said the incident was continuing and urged citizens to stay away from the scene and remain indoors.
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>Charles University is located in Prague’s Old Town, around 500m from the historic Charles Bridge, a tourist magnet.
Will update when more information is revealed.
edit 1:
>Police said the gunman had been “eliminated” and that the building was being evacuated.
Edit 2:
From: Mlada Fronta Dnes – Czech newspaper
>The shooter from the Faculty of Arts at Jan Palach Square in Prague has been eliminated, police reported. There are several dead and dozens of wounded at the scene. The building is being evacuated, and police are searching it to make sure the perpetrator did not have an accomplice. The Interior Minister Vít Rakušan also headed to the scene.
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>An email to staff at the philosophy faculty of Charles University, seen by Reuters, warned staff of the shooting.It read: “Stay put, don’t go anywhere, if you’re in the offices, lock them and place furniture in front of the door, turn off the lights.”
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**Czech Interior Minister speaks**
>The Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan has told the Czech public that the person who opened fire was dead. Mr Rakusan said there’s no other shooter at the scene and there’s no imminent further danger, but he urged people to cooperate with police.
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>Targ Patience, a British-Australian who was staying in a flat near the scene, told the BBC that he heard “a lot of gunshots”.”I looked out of my balcony and saw the police arrive. A few officers were having a hard time stopping people walking towards the scene,” he sad.Unverified images from the scene appeared to show people clinging onto the outside wall of the university building, several storeys up.Prime Minister Petr Fiala said he had cancelled upcoming engagements in light of the “tragic events”.”Suddenly I heard shooting,” a witness who said she was at the scene told Czech news outlet Dnes.
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**Czech media reported that at least 11 people died in the incident, including the gunman.**
Edit 7:
**Czech police say building is still being evacuated**
>Stále probíhá evakuace budovy, jelikož se někteří studenti před střelcem uzamkli v místnostech. pic.twitter.com/Puw5it55h7 — Policie ČR
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>A further three dozen others have been wounded, Prague’s emergency services said.
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>Students said they had barricaded themselves in classrooms.”Currently stuck inside my classroom in Prague,” Jakob Weizman, a student at Charles University, wrote on X (formerly Twitter).”Locked the door before the shooter tried to open it.”
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**Czech president says he is ‘shocked’ by mass shooting**
>In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, says he is “shocked by the events” in Prague and expresses his “sincere condolences to the families and relatives of the victims”.He also thanks Prague residents for “respecting the instructions of the security forces”.
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>Prague’s emergency service says that “a large number of ambulance units” were deployed at the faculty of arts of Charles University, in central Prague, adding the injuries ranged from light to very serious.
The Czech Republic’s Nova TV station reports that there was blast and a gunman on the roof of the building in Prague’s centre.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusan says “no other gunman has been confirmed” and asks people to follow police instructions.
Police have closed the area and are asking people living nearby to stay at home.
Czech Republic has a mild history of mass shootings, however, there have been 4 bad ones in the recent past, in 2015, 2019, and two in 2020
Man, this is terrible… Events like this are extremely rare in Czech and i dont think anyone was expecting anything like this ever happen :/. Rest in peace to all the souls who’ve lost their lives.
11 people, damn.
I’m studying in Brno, another Czech city. Wrote a final today and left for home at around 3 pm. Still on the train. Hard to process what happened. These were people in the same exact life situation as me. And now they’re just gone.
I have a lot of ex-classmates from highschool that went on to study in Prague. You can’t imagine how deep my heart sank when I first found out about the shooting.
Shocking…
Hamas
11 people dead, it’s the worst mass shooting in the history of Czech Republic.
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Wow so it doesn’t only happen in America.
Czech Police said the shooter was eliminated.
I thought nobody could get a gun in Europe!?
>Czech Police say people have been killed and injured in a reported shooting near a university in central Prague.
>
>Reports suggest the incident occurred at Charles University Faculty of Arts, located on Jan Palach Square.
>
>Authorities said the whole of the square and surrounding area was closed.
>
>Police said the incident was continuing and urged citizens to stay away from the scene and remain indoors.
>
>Charles University is located in Prague’s Old Town, around 500m from the historic Charles Bridge, a tourist magnet.
Will update when more information is revealed.
edit 1:
>Police said the gunman had been “eliminated” and that the building was being evacuated.
Edit 2:
From: Mlada Fronta Dnes – Czech newspaper
>The shooter from the Faculty of Arts at Jan Palach Square in Prague has been eliminated, police reported. There are several dead and dozens of wounded at the scene. The building is being evacuated, and police are searching it to make sure the perpetrator did not have an accomplice. The Interior Minister Vít Rakušan also headed to the scene.
Edit 3:
>An email to staff at the philosophy faculty of Charles University, seen by Reuters, warned staff of the shooting.It read: “Stay put, don’t go anywhere, if you’re in the offices, lock them and place furniture in front of the door, turn off the lights.”
Edit 4:
**Czech Interior Minister speaks**
>The Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan has told the Czech public that the person who opened fire was dead. Mr Rakusan said there’s no other shooter at the scene and there’s no imminent further danger, but he urged people to cooperate with police.
Edit 5:
>Targ Patience, a British-Australian who was staying in a flat near the scene, told the BBC that he heard “a lot of gunshots”.”I looked out of my balcony and saw the police arrive. A few officers were having a hard time stopping people walking towards the scene,” he sad.Unverified images from the scene appeared to show people clinging onto the outside wall of the university building, several storeys up.Prime Minister Petr Fiala said he had cancelled upcoming engagements in light of the “tragic events”.”Suddenly I heard shooting,” a witness who said she was at the scene told Czech news outlet Dnes.
Edit 6:
**Czech media reported that at least 11 people died in the incident, including the gunman.**
Edit 7:
**Czech police say building is still being evacuated**
>Stále probíhá evakuace budovy, jelikož se někteří studenti před střelcem uzamkli v místnostech. pic.twitter.com/Puw5it55h7 — Policie ČR
>
>A further three dozen others have been wounded, Prague’s emergency services said.
Edit 8:
>Students said they had barricaded themselves in classrooms.”Currently stuck inside my classroom in Prague,” Jakob Weizman, a student at Charles University, wrote on X (formerly Twitter).”Locked the door before the shooter tried to open it.”
Edit 9:
**Czech president says he is ‘shocked’ by mass shooting**
>In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the Czech president, Petr Pavel, says he is “shocked by the events” in Prague and expresses his “sincere condolences to the families and relatives of the victims”.He also thanks Prague residents for “respecting the instructions of the security forces”.
Edit 10:
>Prague’s emergency service says that “a large number of ambulance units” were deployed at the faculty of arts of Charles University, in central Prague, adding the injuries ranged from light to very serious.
The Czech Republic’s Nova TV station reports that there was blast and a gunman on the roof of the building in Prague’s centre.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusan says “no other gunman has been confirmed” and asks people to follow police instructions.
Police have closed the area and are asking people living nearby to stay at home.
Remember: No name. No face. [No notoriety](https://nonotoriety.com).
Czech Republic has a mild history of mass shootings, however, there have been 4 bad ones in the recent past, in 2015, 2019, and two in 2020
Man, this is terrible… Events like this are extremely rare in Czech and i dont think anyone was expecting anything like this ever happen :/. Rest in peace to all the souls who’ve lost their lives.
11 people, damn.
I’m studying in Brno, another Czech city. Wrote a final today and left for home at around 3 pm. Still on the train. Hard to process what happened. These were people in the same exact life situation as me. And now they’re just gone.
I have a lot of ex-classmates from highschool that went on to study in Prague. You can’t imagine how deep my heart sank when I first found out about the shooting.
Shocking…
Hamas
11 people dead, it’s the worst mass shooting in the history of Czech Republic.
Has there been any information about a motive?