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At least 14 people have been shot dead and 25 others injured at Prague university in Czech Republic this Thursday by a young man named David K. Mass shootings at Prague university
The Czech police said 14 people were shot dead by a gunman at the university of Prague, while 25 others were “seriously” injured.
According to the police, the shooter is from a village close to the capital of Czech republic. He has a criminal history, and had killed his father at Charles University earlier today before the mass shootings.
David is also believed to be “connected to the murder of two people in a forest near Prague last week”. But, there is a need for more evidence to be looked at by the police. Mass shootings at Prague university
Just this afternoon, at the scene of bloodshed, residents and other people who might have visited the university were seen running helter skelter to safety. “We are just scared, I don’t even know where my children are,” A lady told one of the officers.
This moment has pulled the entire city into a state of mourning Davide’s victims. Families had to face the unforeseen loss of beloved ones, who had left homes healthy and alive but now in a stretcher into a morgue or hospitals.
And due to the tragic incident, the prime minister Petr Fiala has cancelled upcoming “engagement” to unravel the situation. Mass shootings at Prague university
Officials said the Czech police officers believe “the shooter”, a student of arts at Charles University’s Institute of World History, “chose his victims at random”.
David K, 24, was “clearly an engaged student” before the shooting and had earlier been seen actively around campus by some students who knew him.
The police said he was “due to attend a lecture this afternoon in a separate university building in Celetna Street”
before the shooting.
And according to a report from one of the university officials, a man by the same name won a prize earlier this week from Prague’s polish institute for a bachelor’s thesis on revolutionary events in 1846 in Krakow.
But David had left his village in Hostoun 20km (12 miles) west of Prague, after killing his father and proceeded to the university.
He is “inspired by a horrific event, a similar event, abroad” and had gone to Prague to end his,” said the Police Chief, Martin Vondrasek.
Speaking at a news conference, the Czech Republic’s interior minister and police said that officers are carrying out investigations into the mystery behind today’s shooter being responsible for the killing of two people in Klanovicky forest near Prague last week.
Vít Rakušan, minister of the Interior, is concerned about the residents and has shown his sadness over the loss of lives of people in the shooting, reassuring them of a calmer situation. He expressed his heart-felt sorry for “all the victims of this unprecedentedly insane act, which the Czech Republic has never experienced in its history”.
He described the tragic incident as something everyone was “terrified of”, and least prepared to proactively avoid.
The minister expressed his condolences to the victims’ families. “I am extremely sorry for everyone who fell victim to the inexcusable attack on the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University,” he said.
“My deepest condolences to their loved ones and friends.”
“The tragedy is deep, the tragedy will certainly have many other consequences for the atmosphere in the school, for the loved ones, for those who were evacuated from the building, and who witnessed the tragic event.”
According to a Czech resident, Caterina, “people are very curious about this” and it’s happening at the time that we have “thousands of visitors” coming to Czech for Christmas. (2)
“People from the Czech Republic are very curious about this. It also breaks my heart hearing that they have to witness something like that,” she said.
Also speaking with Czech Television, Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda said,“ We always thought that this was a thing that did not concern us. Now it turns out that, unfortunately, our world is also changing and the problem of the individual shooter is emerging here as well.”
It’s one of the worst violence that had occurred in Czech histor. involving the death of a great number of people and dozens of casualties.
“This is crazy! I don’t think it’s actually happening. I was inside the building when I heard the first gunshots and thought it was nothing,” an international student of the university told one of our reporters on Whatsapp video call.
“And as I waited to speak with my teacher because he asked to wait by after classes, then saw everyone rushing out of the building. I almost fell down and cut my skin. But thank God, the police were quick to arrest the situation,” she added.
The shooting on Thursday caused a great shock, even as the university officials said they had no idea that such a thing was going to happen. It is “unexpected” to see everyone running just like that when you “never knew what was going to happen” and you were in the middle of something.
One of the officials of Charles University, professor Radek Similar, said “We thought it was a drunk guy or a rioter or something.”
But as the noise continued he heard the words, “Police! Get out!” And not quite long after this, then there was the sound of shootings and loud shouting coming from the building that he had to rush out of the building with his five students.
According to the spokesman for Czech Republic police, Moravcik said in an interview: “The suspect had a lot of guns, special army guns, but all of these guns were legal.”
The police quick response might have salvaged the situation by reducing possible death and casualties. It would have been worse, maybe they had not arrived early on the scene given the shooter’s bloodlust.
Czech has not witnessed this number of mass shootings in eight years.The previous shootings were in 2015 and 2019. In 2019 when a gunman murdered six people in a hospital waiting room in Ostrava city, eastern Czech, and the 2015 Uhersky Brod gun murder of eight people at a restaurant. Mass shootings at Prague university
