2 women killed in the attack of the Czech Market Center, arrested 16-year-old suspects-transnional
A teenage striker killed two women with a knife at the Czech City of Hradec Kralove on Thursday before being detained shortly after, police said.
Police investigated the motive of attack in the city 110 KM east of Prague.
“Although we were at the scene within a few minutes of the report, both victims suffered injuries so serious that they could not be saved despite all the efforts of the respondents,” police said in a post on X.
Said a police spokesman Novinky.cz The news website Attack Attack took place at the shop at the Outdoor Shopping Center. The victims were employees in trade.
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The suspect’s male striker, a 16-year-old Czech citizen, was detained 10 minutes after an incident less than a kilometer away, a spokesman said, adding a knife with a blade about 20 centimeters long.
“The motif of the attacker is still not clear,” the police said on X. “However, there is nothing to suggest that it was a terrorist attack. The information we currently had, which can still change, suggest that the choice of victims was random. “
Police at the beginning said the victims were wounded in the attack, before reporting later that they had died of injuries.
Paramedic that responded to the scene said Novinky.cz that the efforts to revive lasted about 40 minutes.
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