Gunman kills 14 in unprecedented attack at Prague university

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A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father, then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university on Thursday (Dec 21) before possibly killing himself, police said, marking the country's worst-ever mass shooting.  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/yuxpcmwd  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A gunman killed more than a dozen people and seriously injured others at a Prague university

00:06 on Thursday, police said, in what was the country's worst-ever mass shooting.

00:11 The shooter's body was also found in the area.

00:14 Czech police responded to the shooting at Charles University's Faculty of Arts building

00:19 shortly after 3 p.m. local time.

00:22 The gunman was a student at the faculty, police said.

00:25 His father was found dead earlier in the day.

00:28 Bystander Ivo Havrinek told Reuters what he saw.

00:31 "In the beginning there was a couple of bangs.

00:36 I didn't even realize it's a shooting.

00:39 Then suddenly there were students and teachers running out of the building.

00:48 When I got through the crowd and I realized that there's the police fully equipped with

00:54 automatic rifles covered in Kevlar, Kevlar helms, Kevlar vests, I realized that, OK,

01:02 this is something going on, this is wrong."

01:05 An email sent to staff and students said the shooter was in one of the buildings.

01:10 Video from the scene showed armed police on the street and people hiding on the ledge

01:14 of a building.

01:15 Police sealed off the square and the area adjacent to the building, located in a busy

01:19 part of town.

01:21 Gun crime is relatively rare in the Czech Republic.

01:24 For more information visit www.cdc.gov/crimestoppers.

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