Officials in the Czech Republic say an assailant has attacked and killed two women with a knife at a shopping center, and that a Czech teenager has been arrested for the crime.

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,

The two women were reportedly employees of the shop where the attack happened and a 16-year-old youth has been detained for questioning by police. View on euronews