A gunman killed 10 people and seriously wounded 11 others at a Prague university on Thursday before being "eliminated", according to police and Prague emergency services.
Czech police said shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) that they were responding to the shooting at Charles University's faculty of arts building in Jan Palach Square, before reporting the shooter had been "eliminated".
The Prague emergency services department said on social platform X that 11 people had been killed including the gunman and 11 were seriously wounded.
Petr Nedoma, director of the Rudolfinum Gallery at a concert hall across Palach Square, told Czech TV he saw the shooter.
"I saw a young person on the gallery who had some weapon in his hand, like and 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 said.
Reuters
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