(24 Dec 2023)
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Prague, Czech Republic - 24 December 2023
1. Wide of Old Town Square, Christmas market
2. Mid of Christmas market
3. Wide of candles, flowers, other tributes at Charles University headquarters
4. Close of children
5. Wide of people lighting candles
6. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Simona Kuklova, local resident:
"At that time (of shooting) I was in metro Staromestska (Old Town Square station, next to the shooting site) and we were pushed back to the metro. I had no clue what was happening. When I returned home and realised what had happened, it got to me. Even though I am still a high school student they (victims) were almost my age."
7. Pan of tributes
8. University building
9. Mid of black flags on a nearby building of Rudolphinum
10. Various of mourners, candles
STORYLINE:
Mourners lit candles and left flowers on Sunday near the Prague university where a gunman killed 14 people in the country's worst mass shooting.
The shooting occurred inside Charles University's Faculty of Arts on Thursday.
Twenty-five other people were wounded before the gunman killed himself.
Police and prosecutors said they have evidence the 24-year-old shooter also killed his father earlier in the day and a man and a baby in Prague last week.
The shooter was Czech and a student at the Faculty of Arts.
Investigators do not suspect a link to any extremist ideology or groups.
Officials said they believed he acted alone but his motive is not yet clear.
Previously, the nation’s worst mass shooting was in 2015, when a gunman opened fire in the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod, killing eight before fatally shooting himself.
AP Video shot by Jan Gebert
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