PRAGUE: Czech authorities sought a motive on Friday (Dec 22) in a pupil’s gun assault at a Prague university, the place tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for 14 victims.
The gunfire on Thursday on the Charles College’s College of Arts sparked frantic scenes of scholars working from the assault that was the Czech Republic’s worst capturing in many years.
A makeshift memorial of tons of of candles lit by tearful college students flickered exterior the college on Friday as police pursued the investigation on the campus in Prague’s historic centre.
“There are 15 lifeless, which is totally unprecedented within the Czech Republic. This isn’t America,” 17-year-old Richard Smaha advised AFP. “I feel it is horrible.”
The gunman, a 24-year-old pupil, killed himself after capturing lifeless 13 individuals and wounding 25 others. One of many wounded later died in hospital.
“These wounded within the gunman’s assault on the College of Arts embody three international nationals, that’s, one citizen of the Netherlands and two residents of the United Arab Emirates,” Inside Minister Vit Rakusan advised reporters.
Police officer Josef Jerabek stated the gunman killed himself when he “felt the loop tightening” because the police approached him after the carnage.
Rakusan had stated earlier that there was no hyperlink between the capturing and “worldwide terrorism” and that the perpetrator acted on his personal.
However police have since detained 4 individuals both for threatening to repeat the assault or for approving of it.
Police are additionally nonetheless guarding chosen websites, together with faculties, inside preventive measures and as “a sign we’re right here”. They’ll achieve this not less than till Jan 1, stated Rakusan.
The federal government has declared a nationwide day of mourning on Saturday, with flags on official buildings to be flown at half-mast and folks requested to look at a minute’s silence at midday.
