A teenage attacker killed two women on Thursday with a knife in a mall in the Czech city of Hradec Kralove before being arrested shortly after, the police said.
The police were investigating the reason for the attack in the city 110 km east of Prague.
“Although we were in the scene a few minutes from the report, both victims suffered so serious injuries that they could not be saved despite all the efforts of the responders,” police said in a position in X.
A police spokesman told the Novinky.cz Online news website The attack took place in a store in the outdoor shopping center. The victims were store employees.
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The alleged male attacker, a 16 -year -old Czech citizen, was arrested 10 minutes after the incident less than a kilometer away, said the spokesman, added a knife with a blade approximately 20 centimeters long.
“The reason for the attacker is not yet clear,” police said in X. “However, there is nothing to suggest that it was a terrorist attack. The information we have at this time can still change, suggests that the Selection of victims was random. ”
Initially, the police had said that the victims were injured in the attack, before informing that they had died from the injuries.
A paramedic who responded to the scene told Novinky.CZ that resuscitation efforts lasted about 40 minutes.
