At least four people were killed on Tuesday and two more were seriously injured in a shooting at a hospital in the Czech city of Ostrava, police confirmed.
Police said on Twitter that they first received a report of a shooting at the hospital in the Poruba district of Ostrava, a city in the north-east of the country, at 07:19 CET and were at the scene five minutes later.
They added that people had been evacuated and that they were “intensely searching for the perpetrator”.
They also released a picture of the suspect, asking the public for help and to act with the “utmost caution”.