PRAGUE, Aug 2 (AFP) - An Israeli casino owner was the target of a weekend grenade attack in the bustling heart of Prague that injured 18 people, mostly foreign tourists, Czech police said Monday.
"We are treating this incident as the attempted murder of Assaf Abutbul as part of an ongoing feud between two Israeli families trying to settle accounts," Prague police spokeswoman Iva Knolova told AFP.
An unknown attacker on Sunday hurled a grenade at Abutbul's Casino Royal situated on a pedestrian precinct full of shops, cafes and restaurants just off Wenceslas Square which was packed with tourists at the time.
No one has yet been arrested, Knolova said.
According to the Czech news wire CTK, the Abutbul family has been at loggerheads with the Abergil family for years. Abutbul's father Felix was murdered by an unknown sniper as he left the same building two years ago.
The injured included an eight-year-old American girl and two other US citizens, five Britons, four Irish nationals, two Cypriots, two Czechs, one Bulgarian and a Slovak.
Czech prime minister-designate Stanislav Gross, who visited the scene, ruled out a terrorist attack, saying: "This is linked to the criminal underworld, it's more or less about criminals settling scores."