Police seek motive in Prague mass shooting

Czech authorities seeking a motive in a student’s gun attack that killed 14 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the dead.

The gunfire yesterday at the Charles University’s Faculty of Arts sparked frantic scenes of students running from the attack that was the Czech Republic’s worst shooting in decades.

A makeshift memorial of hundreds of candles flickers outside the university as police pursued the investigation at the campus in Prague’s historic center.

The gunman, a 24-year-old student, died during the attack, after shooting dead 14 people and wounding 25 others.

“Thirteen out of the 14 victims of this insane massacre have been identified,” Interior Minister Vit Rakusan tells Czech Radio.

All the victims were killed inside the building, and at least some were the gunman’s fellow students.