At least nine people have been killed and another seriously injured after a gunman opened fire at a restaurant in the Czech Republic, before turning his gun on himself, police have said. The shooting, believed to be the worst in the young country’s peacetime history, took place in the Družba restaurant in Uherský Brod, a town of 17,000 people which lies 180 miles southeast of Prague. Czech Television said the attacker fired about 25 rounds. At least 20 people are believed to have been in the restaurant at the time of the attack.
