11 dead, 9 seriously injured in Prague school shooting

A mass shooting at a Prague university on Thursday left 11 people dead - including the gunman - and nine seriously wounded, the Czech capital's emergency services department said on social platform X.

Czech police said shortly after 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) that they were responding to a school shooting in Jan Palach Square near Prague's Old Town Square, before reporting that the gunman had been "eliminated."