It left 13 and the gunman dead, authorities said, adding that he was a student at the school. No Americans are believed to have been among the victims, the State Department told CBS News.
Czech authorities sought a motive Friday in a student’s gun attack that , where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the victims.
The gunfire Thursday 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 flickered outside the university on Friday as police pursued the investigation at the campus in Prague’s historic center.
The gunman, a 24-year-old student, killed himself after the attack after shooting dead 13 people and wounding 25 others.
« We know all 14 dead and their identity. It’s 13 victims of the mad gunman and the gunman himself, » Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told public broadcaster Czech TV, revising down a previous toll of 14 victims.
A State Department spokesperson told CBS News Thursday evening that it was « not aware of any U.S. citizens injured or killed at this time » in the attack.
Rakusan added that three of the wounded were foreigners.
The Dutch foreign ministry said one was a Dutch national. Rakusan said two were from Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reports.
All the victims were killed inside the building and at least some were the gunman’s fellow students, authorities said.
