A 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 at a Prague university on Thursday in the Czech Republic's worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was "eliminated". People walk near the building of Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in downtown Prague, Czech Republic. "At 1359 GMT, we received the first information about shooting," Vondrasek told reporters, adding the rapid response unit was on the scene within 12 minutes. - 'No other gunman' -Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said there was no link between the shooting and "international terrorism". In 2019, a man killed six people in the waiting room of a hospital in the eastern city of Ostrava, with another woman dying days later.

Source: Hindustan Times December 21, 2023 20:26 UTC