A teenaged attacker killed two women with a knife in a shopping centre in the Czech city of Hradec Kralove on Thursday before being detained shortly afterwards, police said. Police were investigating the motive for the attack in the city 110 km (68 miles) east of Prague.

An assailant attacked and killed two women with a knife at a shopping centre in the Czech Republic on Thursday, officials said, and a Czech teenager was later arrested for the crime.It was not immediately known what the motive for the attack was in the city of Hradec Kralove,