at university prague. a few details coming in. we are hearing there is an unspecified number of dead people and injured people. the university is called the charles university faculty of art, located centrally in central prague. authorities say the square and surrounding area is shut down and close to people coming in and out. this continuing incident is still happening, so police warning anyone in the area to stay away as possible. in an e mail to students, the university has told them to stay put until lock offices. we think parts of the university have been locked down because of this ongoing incident. charles university is located in prague s old town, about 500 metres from the historic charles bridge, which is a tourist magnet and very well known landmark in the city. we will try and bring you more on this as we get it. you can get the latest on what is happening if you do step away from the television on our website. but when we get more website, we will bring it to you
at a university in prague. about 20 more were injured, some of them seriously. police say the gunman was also killed. these are the live pictures coming out of prague. the latest lanes we are getting from this latest press conference is that the shooters body was found at the faculty of arts after a long search by police of the university area. also going the police that the suspect s s father was found dead earlier on today. so those are the latest lines that we are hearing. we are also hearing that he was indeed, the suspect, i mean, a student at the suspect, i mean, a student at the university at the university in prague. if you remember or have been watching the programme over the last couple of hours can i have been speaking to various journalists inside prague who have been telling me that that is what people have been saying, but had not been confirmed. now it has. another suspect was a university student, that his father was found dead earlier on in the day. of cours
have been told to stay put and to stay indoors. we are having that in terms of injured, there are potentially dozens of people injured. ambulances have been rushed to the scene, many, many ambulances. we were hearing from a journalist who works in prague who was telling me that gun crime is very low, generally, in the czech republic. authorities say the whole of the square and several streets around the university have been shut down. we had one witness talking about the fact that they suddenly heard a shooting. she was at the scene and told a czech news outlet which is then been reported by bbc news. we are getting information also that the shooting happened inside a university building, not outside. people on x, formerly known as twitter, if you look at videos, people are seen running away in the street from the university. we will bring you more on that story when we get it here on bbc news. a plan for any european football competition has been released of the european uni