A teenaged attacker killed two ladies with a knife in a procuring centre within the Czech metropolis of Hradec Králové on Thursday earlier than being detained shortly afterwards, police stated.
Police had been investigating the motive for the assault within the metropolis, 110 km (68 miles) east of Prague.
“Though we had been on the scene inside a couple of minutes of the report, each victims suffered accidents so critical that they might not be saved regardless of all efforts of responders,” the police stated in a put up on X.
A police spokesperson informed the Novinky.cz on-line information web site that the assault occurred in a retailer on the out of doors procuring centre. The victims had been staff on the store.
The suspected male attacker, a 16-year-old Czech citizen, was detained 10 minutes after the incident, lower than a kilometre away, the spokesperson stated, including {that a} knife with a blade about 20 centimetres (8 inches) lengthy was discovered close by.
Police had initially stated the victims had been wounded within the assault earlier than later reporting that they’d died from their accidents.
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A paramedic responding to the scene informed Novinky.cz that resuscitation efforts lasted round 40 minutes.
