PRAGUE, December 21. /TASS/: The person that opened fire at Prague’s Charles University has been neutralized, the police said on the X platform, adding that there are casualties and dozens of injured.
"The shooter has been neutralized! The [Department of Philosophy] building has been evacuated. There are several casualties and dozens on injured," the statement says.
According to the seznam.cz website, the attacker was killed during the police operation.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses say on social media that the shooter was armed with a "long-barrel firearm." They say that the shooting in the Department building lasted for a long time.
Department employees and students said that, after the shooting started, they locked themselves in the rooms that they were in. In the meantime, the criminal was moving through the corridors, shooting everyone he met.