A 24-year-old Czech student killed more than 15 people and wounded at least 24 others at his Prague university on Thursday before he was “eliminated,” police said, in what was the country’s worst-ever mass shooting.
_x000D_Czech police responded to the shooting at Charles University’s faculty of arts building in Jan Palach Square shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT). Police said the father of the shooter – a student at the faculty – was found dead earlier on Thursday.
_x000D_“The shooter has been eliminated !!! The entire building is currently being evacuated and there are several dead and dozens of injured,” the police announced online.
_x000D_The Central Military Hospital activated a trauma plan to respond to the mass reception of the wounded, Czech media source CT24 reported.
_x000D_Police Chief Martin Vondrasek said authorities was tipped off earlier in the day the man was likely heading to Prague from his town in the Kladno region outside the capital with intentions of taking his own life. Shortly after that, the shooter’s father was found dead.
