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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Charlotte Graham-McLay

Morning Mail: Prague shooting, Centrelink bungle, Giuliani files for bankruptcy

A woman lights candles outside Prague’s Charles University, where a student shot and killed 14 people and injured 25 others
A woman lights candles outside Prague’s Charles University, where a student shot and killed 14 people and injured 25 others. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP

Good morning. A student at Prague’s Charles University has shot and killed at least 14 people and injured 25 others, nine of them seriously, before being found dead, in what is believed to be the worst mass shooting in the Czech Republic’s modern history.

In Australia, a 74-year-old carer was mistakenly declared dead by Centrelink two times in a case advocates say illustrates the “devastating consequences of automation”. Eve had all her records wiped, her bank accounts shut down and her energy concessions for the Gold Coast council withdrawn. “As far as we are concerned you are deceased,” a Centrelink officer told her.

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