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.

A 16-year-old boy killed two women in a knife attack at a discount shop in the Czech Republic on Thursday, police said, adding the motive remained unclear. The attacker's motive was unclear but that there was nothing to indicate a terror attack,

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,