After a fatal attack in a hospital in Ostrava, police have found the alleged shooter. He had shot himself during the access in the head, informed the police on Twitter. It is a 42-year-old. Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said on television that the suspect was dead.
The man is reported to have shot six people in the university hospital and severely injured several others. According to Prime Minister Andrej Babis, the shooter shot at patients in a waiting room. Babis spoke of a "great tragedy".
The facts are unclear. "We do not know what the motives of this person were," said the Prime Minister. He assumed that it was the act of a possibly mentally ill individual offender and there was no general threat situation in the Czech Republic.
"We are all nervous"
Staff members of the clinic were instructed not to leave their departments. "We are all nervous," said a doctor of the agency CTK. The hospital was closed and new patients were not admitted. The administrative region of Moravia-Silesia set up a crisis team.
The university hospital in the industrial city has about 1200 beds. Ostrava, with around 290,000 inhabitants, is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and is located on the north-eastern border of the country.
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