Prague taking pictures newest: At least 15 individuals killed and dozens injured at Charles college | EUROtoday

Authorities have warned that the dying toll might rise. Prague Police Chief Martin Vondrasek stated 24 individuals had been injured.

Czech prime minister Petr Fiala has thanked emergency providers that responded, saying his ideas are with the bereaved.

“There is no justification for this horrific act. Like many of you, I feel profound sadness and disgust in the face of this sickening violence,” he wrote on social media.

He stated the state of affairs was beneath management, and wished these injured a speedy restoration.

He cancelled a deliberate journey to the east of the nation to go to the capital.

Police discovered the gunman useless on a balcony, officers have revealed.

Prague Police chief Martin Vondrasek stated police imagine the suspect killed his father in his house city of Hostoun, simply west of Prague, earlier within the day, and that he had additionally been planning to kill himself.

The police chief described the suspect as a wonderful scholar.

The suspect suffered “devastating injuries” nevertheless it was not clear if he killed himself or was shot useless in an alternate of gunfire with officers, he stated, including that there was “nothing to suggest that he had an accomplice”.

The suspect legally owned a number of weapons, and what he did was “well thought out, a horrible act”, he added.

Everything identified and confirmed in regards to the taking pictures and gunman thus far:

The killer, a 24-year-old scholar, had killed his personal father, in accordance with a Czech journalist who had spoken to police.

The father had earlier within the day been discovered useless.

Police stated the daddy was killed in his hometown of Hostoun, simply west of Prague, earlier within the day, and that the son had additionally been planning to kill himself.

The useless have been reported to be college college students, however the killer attended a special school from them.

Eight college students huddled precariously on a ledge exterior their school constructing, apparently to shelter from the gunman.

A witness instructed information web site iDnes.cz that she had obtained off at a tram cease by the varsity and “suddenly I heard shooting”, earlier than being instructed to get out.

Klara, a scholar, instructed the information web site: “It was terribly scary, there were a lot of policemen everywhere, who were shouting at us with submachine guns, telling us to run outside,” she stated.

Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda instructed Czech tv: “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.”

A witness stated he noticed the gunman on a balcony of the constructing, taking pictures out in the direction of a bridge, then throwing the weapon down.

Petr Nedoma, director of the Rudolfinum Gallery at a live performance corridor throughout Palach Square, instructed Czech TV: “I saw a young person on the gallery who had some weapon in his hand, like an automatic weapon, and shooting toward the Manes Bridge.

“Repeatedly, with some interruptions, then I saw as he shot, put hands up and threw the weapon down on the street, it lay there on the pedestrian crossing,” he stated.

The suspect’s father had been discovered useless earlier within the day, Prague police say.