Czech police seek motive in Prague mass shooting that killed 13.
Czech authorities sought a motive on Friday in a pupil’s gun attack that
killed 13 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left
sparked frantic scenes of scholars running from the attack that was the
Czech Republic’s worst firing in decades. A new keepsake of hundreds
of candles flitted outside the university on Friday as police pursued the
disquisition at the lot in Prague’s major centre. The marksman, a 24-
time-old pupil, killed himself after the attack, shooting dead 13 people
and wounding 25 others. “ We know all 14 dead and their identity. It’s 13
victims of the frenetic marksman and the marksman himself, ” Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told public broadcaster Czech TV, revising down a
former risk of 14 victims. He added that three of the wounded were
non-natives. The Dutch foreign ministry said before that one of them was
a Dutch public. All the victims were killed inside the structure and at least
some were the marksman’s fellow scholars. Rakusan had said before
that there was no link between the firing and “ transnational terrorism ”
and that the pupil acted on his own.
Although police said there was no longer any imminent trouble, they
were still guarding named spots, including seminaries, on Friday as a
preventative measure and “ a signal we're then ”. The government has
declared a public day of mourning on Saturday, with flags on sanctioned
structures to be flown at half- staff and people asked to observe a
nanosecond’s silence at noon. ‘ Huge magazine ’ The marksman,
preliminarily unknown to the police, had a “ huge magazine of munitions
and security ”, Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said after the killings on
Thursday. Police had started a hunt for the pupil indeed before the mass
firing after his father was set up dead in the bill of Hostoun west of
Prague. The marksman left for Prague saying he wanted to kill himself ”,
Vondrasek said, declining to confirm whether the marksman had killed
his father. Police had started the hunt at a Faculty of trades erecting
where the marksman was anticipated to show up for a lecture, but he
went rather to the faculty’s main structure. Police learned about the firing
at around 1400 GMT and transferred a rapid-fire response unit to the
scene. Twenty twinkles later, the marksman was dead. Citing an inquiry
into the pupil’s social media conditioning, Vondrasek said the marksman was inspired by an “ analogous case that happened in Russia ”, without
furnishing further details. Vondrasek said police believed the same
marksman had also killed a youthful man and his two- month-old son in
a perambulator
during a walk in a timber on the eastern outskirts of Prague on
December 15. The disquisition into those murders, which had shocked
Prague, had stalled until substantiation set up in Houston linked the
marksman with the crime. ‘ Senseless ’ The firing at Charles University,
which sits near major sightseer spots like the 14th- century Charles
Bridge, was the deadliest since the Czech Republic surfaced as an
independent state in 1993. “ There's no defence for this horrendous act,
” Prime Minister Petr Fiala said. Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas
Jilani extended his condolences over the loss of life. The foreign minister
also pleaded for the recovery of all the injured.
US President Joe Biden sent his condolences, slamming the
“senseless” shooting.
“My heart is with those who lost their lives in today’s senseless shooting in
Prague, those injured, and the Czech people,” he wrote on X.
“Our authorities are in touch with Czech law enforcement, and we stand
ready to offer additional support if needed.”
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