15 people were killed, including the attacker, and 24 were injured in a shooting at Carolina University in central Prague. The police said that the attacker was “liquidated”.

The perpetrator of the massacre was a 24-year-old student at Karolinska University, and according to Czech police, there are no signs of a terrorist attack.

Czech police chief Martin Vondrasek said at a press conference that the suspect, a 24-year-old student at Karolinska University, had to leave his home in Hostoun, a small town west of Prague, to go to school, The Guardian reported. .

The police chief told how the events developed:

• At 12:40, the police found the lifeless body of his father in the house.
• The police then learned that the suspect was scheduled to give a lecture at the university at 2:00 p.m., went there and ordered the building to be evacuated.
• However, the suspect went to another building of the university, where he opened fire.
• The first information about the attack came to the police at 14:59.
• Emergency personnel arrived on the scene in a matter of minutes, and special forces – in 12 minutes.
• At 3:20 p.m., the police received information that the intruder’s lifeless body was on the windowsill of the building.
• Although the attacker appears to have committed suicide, police also fired shots, so it is unclear what the immediate cause of the suspect’s death was.

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