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Piles of ammunition and barricaded classrooms: Police reveal how Prague mass shooting unfolded

Source: AP

The gunman who killed 14 people during a rampage at a university in Prague took his own life after a rooftop shootout, police have revealed.

David Kozak, 24, took his own life by as armed police cornered him on the balcony of the Charles University’s Faculty of Arts building. He had by then and injured 25 more with an assault rifle. , the head of the Institute of Musicology at the university’s Faculty of Arts, is the

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