Ten dead and dozens wounded in Prague university shooting:

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At least ten people have been killed and dozens more injured in a mass shooting at a top university in Prague.

Terrified students and tourists were seen fleeing from the Charles University Faculty of Arts building as gunshots rang out at around 3pm today in what is one of Europe's top tourist hotspots.

A chilling image shared on local media purports to show the man dressed in black aiming a rifle at people below while standing on top of a faculty building, with witnesses saying the gunman was picking off his victims one by one.

Dramatic video showed terrified crowds of tourists and locals sprinting across the famous Charles Bridge - one of Europe's top tourist sites - after they heard the sickening sound of gunshots in the city.

In separate footage, people were seen running with their hands raised in the air from the prestigious University's Faculty of Arts building in the capital, as armed police officers swooped in.

Within minutes of the deadly shooting, elite cops were seen storming the building before the gunman was 'eliminated'. At least 10 people were killed in the shooting and more than 20 were injured - 11 seriously, Prague's emergency services said.

Other extraordinary images show terrified students cowering on a ledge high up on a balcony in a bid to hide from the gunman after others were told to barricade themselves in classrooms.

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Police later said they killed the gunman after they stormed the building and have evacuated everyone who was trapped inside.

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'The gunman was eliminated!!!' police said on X, formerly Twitter. 'The building is currently being evacuated and there are several dead and dozens of wounded people on the scene.'



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A lone gunman armed with a sniper rifle picked people off from the rooftop of a prestigious University in Prague today during an hour-long shooting spree which ended when elite police officers stormed the building.

The shocking incident unfolded over a chaotic hour this afternoon, sending people in the Czech capital fleeing in panic from the scene, and left at least 15 people dead with dozens more injured in one of the country's worst ever mass shootings.

The bulk of the bloodshed took place in the philosophy department building of Charles University, where the shooter was a student, Prague Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said, but began earlier in a small town ten miles away.

Reports of the attack began this afternoon at around 2.30pm local time (1.30pm GMT), with reports of an active shooter at Charles University in the centre of the city.

But this came after Czech police received information at 12.45pm of a man who had been killed in the village of Hostouň, who is understood to be the shooter's father.

The shooter has not been named publicly, but officials said he was 24 years old.





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JBR said:
Is his motivation now known or suspected?
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In the lead up to his killing spree, he is thought to have kept a diary in Russian on messaging app Telegram, writing: 'I want to do a school shooting and possibly suicide.'

The massacre is the Czech Republic's worst ever mass shooting, and the gunman is believed to have been inspired by a school shooting carried out by 14-year-old schoolgirl Alina Afanaskina in Russia earlier this month.
 
catscan said:
I've just seen something online where they think he was also responsbile for shooting 2 people in some woods a few days ago.
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One of them was his father...


The gunman who unleashed terror on Prague is now suspected of shooting dead a man and his newborn baby in a 'random' attack at a forest near the Czech capital last week, police have revealed.

David Kozak, 24, killed 14 people and injured 25 during a rampage in which he targeted students at his university in downtown Prague, police said, adding that he was shot dead after carrying out the horrific attack.

Kozak murdered his father in the town of Hostoun before heading into the Czech capital where he began randomly shooting people from the balcony of Charles University Arts faculty.

He had a huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition with him, with the country's Interior Minister saying that 'if the police hadn't entered the building in time, the perpetrator wouldn't have been dead on the roof and there would have been a lot more victims.'
 
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I haven't located any reporting on motivation. The killer, like many of that well-armed contemporary type, was methodical — but was there something very specific in choosing the UofP? something represented by the school & what it's known for? something ideological? or just hatred of post-secondary education? was he just a whacked-out guy who wanted to make a big messy, high-profile killing? a general hate for humanity?
 
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