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MORE THAN 15 DEAD IN MASS KILLING AT UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE


CZECH EMERGENCY SERVICES SAID AROUND 25 OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THE SHOOTING AT
CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN CENTRAL PRAGUE

By Gerrit De Vynck
and 
Kate Brady
Updated December 21, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. EST|Published December 21, 2023 at 11:25
a.m. EST

Czech Minister of the Interior Vit Rakusan, center, and police commander Martin
Vondrasek, left, speak to the media after a mass shooting in downtown Prague on
Thursday. (Petr David Josek/AP)

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A previous version of this story said Charles University had 59,000 students. It
has around 49,000 students.

BRUSSELS — Czech police and emergency services said a shooter had been
“eliminated” after killing at least 15 people and wounding “dozens” more at a
university in the capital, Prague, on Thursday.

Images on social media showed students barricaded in classrooms and emergency
vehicles swarming a square in Prague’s old town. Police said on X, formerly
Twitter, that the shooter was dead, and the school, Charles University, was
being evacuated.


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