Officials in the Czech Republic have said that an armed attacker opened fire on one of the universities in Prague, the capital of the country, on Thursday, December 21 (30) and killed at least 15 people and injured 24 before escaping. He injured others.

Martin Vondrašek, head of the Prague police, told reporters at the scene that the attacker was a 24-year-old university student. He added that this event is not related to “international terrorism”.

According to Vondrasik, before the shooting happened, the police were looking for the attacker, because he said the police had found the body of the attacker’s father in a village west of Prague.

This fatal incident occurred around three o’clock in the morning, in an area of ​​the historical city of Prague, where officials warned people to stay indoors.

The shelling at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts is located near the main tourist attractions of Prague.

Peter Paul, the President of the Czech Republic, said that he was deeply shocked by the incident and expressed his condolences to the families and relatives of the victims.

In the PN event, Petr Fiala, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic canceled his planned visit to the East. Since the establishment of the Czech Republic in 1993, this is the deadliest shooting incident in the country.

Although such incidents are not common in the Czech Republic, this country has witnessed several shootings and mass killings in recent years.

In December 2019, a 42-year-old armed assailant killed six people in the waiting room of a hospital in the city of Ostrava in the eastern Czech Republic, and a few hours later he shot himself.

In 2015, a 65-year-old gunman killed eight people in a restaurant in the city of Okhreskyi Brod in eastern Ukraine and then committed suicide.

In the preparation of this article, reports from Reuters and France Press have been used.