(20 Feb 2025)
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Hradec Kralove, Czechia – 20 February 2025
1. Various of police at crime scene
2. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Iva Kormošová, spokeswoman of the Police of the Hradec Králové Region:
"Today, shortly after 8:30 pm, two female clerks were assaulted in a Hradec Králové store. Unfortunately, they died of stab wounds shortly after."
3. Police officers walking
4. Police officer changing tape around crime scene
5. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Iva Kormošová, spokeswoman of the Police of the Hradec Králové Region:
"We were able to apprehend the male suspect in the attack within ten minutes of being notified less than a mile from the scene. A strike team was dispatched to apprehend him. Officers found a knife near the store. The motive and all the circumstances of this case are under further investigation."
6. Various of police at scene
STORYLINE:
Two women died in a knife attack on Thursday at a shopping center in the Czech Republic, officials said.
Police say they detained a teenage suspect in connection with the stabbings in a store in the city of Hradec Králové, some 100 miles east of Prague.
Reports initially said the victims had been injured, one of them seriously, but police later said both had died. They were not identified.
A 16-year-old Czech national was detained by police about one 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the scene, shortly after the attack. A knife was found nearby.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala offered his condolences to the relatives of the dead.
“What has happened in Hradec Kralove today is an absolutely incomprehensible and horrible act,” he posted on X.
The motive for the attack was not immediately known.
Police say the situation was under control, and there was no danger to the public. No other details were immediately available.
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