Prague taking pictures: Footage reveals individuals cowering on ledge of college constructing as police hunt gunman
Footage has emerged exhibiting individuals hiding on the ledge of a college constructing amid a mass taking pictures in central Prague.
At least 15 people have been killed, in keeping with Czech emergency companies, whereas 24 others have been wounded, in keeping with rescue companies.
Police beforehand stated the gunman – a 24-year-old scholar on the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague – had been “eliminated”.
His physique was discovered within the college’s philosophy constructing, in keeping with officers.
Police stated the gunman’s father was additionally discovered lifeless earlier right this moment.
Officers are nonetheless sweeping the realm, together with the constructing’s balconies, for doable explosives.
Police autos on the scene. Pic: AP Photo/Petr David Josek
The mass taking pictures is the deadliest within the Czech Republic in latest occasions – the final being in 2019, when seven individuals have been killed by a gunman, who later took his personal life, within the Ostrava hospital assault.
Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda advised Czech tv: “We always thought that this was a thing that did not
concern us.
“Now it seems that, sadly, our world can also be altering and the issue of the person shooter is rising right here as effectively.”
A police officer secures the realm following the taking pictures
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The incident came about within the space of Jan Palach Square, within the metropolis’s Old Town district.
The space is dwelling to The Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design.
Klara, a scholar on the college, advised native media that she was amongst those that police evacuated from the constructing.
“It was terribly scary,” she advised iDnes.cz.
“There were a lot of policemen everywhere, who were shouting at us with submachine guns, telling us to run outside.”
Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda stated each The Philosophical Faculty of Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design, had been evacuated in the course of the taking pictures.