PRAGUE — Police search continued after a report of gunshots heard on a university campus in the western Czech city of Pilsen on Wednesday, authorities said.
Czech police said at around 5 p.m. they received a report about shots fired on the premises of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, and “a large number of police forces and resources immediately went to the scene.”
“The reported shooting has not yet been confirmed and no one was injured at the scene. We had to close and create a safe perimeter around the university. Now we will search the whole area,” police said in the latest update on X.
“Police evacuated about 1,000 people from the university campus and are continuing to search the buildings,” Interior Minister Vit Rakusan confirmed on social media platform X.
Last December, a student opened fire at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, killing 14 people and wounding 25 others.
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