Shooting in the center of Prague causes 11 deaths
Foreign Ministry spokesman says there are no Ukrainians among the victims
A shooting at Charles University in Prague has killed 11 people, including the shooter, Seznam Zpravy reports.
In addition, nine people were seriously injured, while the condition of the other victims is assessed as moderate to light.
The shooting took place on the afternoon of Thursday, December 21, in the university building on Jan Palach Square in the center of Prague.
Student eyewitnesses said that the killer was a student of the Faculty of History, born in 1999. It is known that he was studying for a bachelor's degree. According to eyewitnesses, he had recently begun to behave strangely, and during the shooting he shouted that he had killed his father in the morning and had "nothing to lose."
Czech police report that the evacuation of the university building continues, with many students still remaining in classrooms where they barricaded themselves to hide from the shooter.
VIDEO: Evakuace studentů z budovy Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v centru Prahy 👇 pic.twitter.com/4AEhi1xhOb
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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said he had canceled his working trip and was traveling to Prague. Interior Minister Vit Rakusan is also heading there.
The police reported that they had previously put a man born in 1999 on the wanted list in connection with the violent death of a man born in 1968 and that this case may be related to today's shooting.
There was no information about injured Ukrainians in Prague, said Oleh Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
"We are monitoring the situation around the shooting near Charles University in Prague. We have not yet received any information about injured Ukrainians. Ukrainian diplomats are in contact with Czech law enforcement," Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.
The embassy's hotline has been opened for citizens: +420 602 224 938.
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