Breaking news. Two women killed in stabbing attack in Czech Republic

Two women have been killed in a knife attack at a shopping centre in the Czech Republic, officials have said.

Police say they detained a teenage suspect in connection with the stabbings in a store in the city of Hradec Králové, around 100km east of the capital Prague.

Police say the two victims were employed in the store where the attack happened.

“We caught up with the male suspect approximately 10 minutes later, less than a kilometre from the crime scene. He was apprehended at the scene by the SWAT team,” said spokesperson for the Hradec Králové Regional Police, Iva Kormosova.

Reports initially said the victims had been injured, one of them seriously, but police later said both had died. Neither have been identified.

Prime Minister Petr Fiala has offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims.

“What has happened in Hradec Králové today is an absolutely incomprehensible and horrible act,” he said in a post on the social media platform X.

The motive for the attack is not immediately known but an investigation is ongoing.

Police say the situation is under control and there is no further danger to members of the public.

Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as more information becomes available.