Police arrest a lone Danish man in possible ‘act of terrorism’ at shopping centre in Denmark
Stine Jacobsen and Nikolaj SkydsgaardPeople flee Field's shopping centre after an attack in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3 2022. Picture: RITZAU SCANPIX/REUTERS
Copenhagen police said armed officers were sent to Field’s mall in the Danish capital late on Sunday afternoon after reports of a shooting and had told people inside to stay put and await assistance. Local media footage showed groups of terrified shoppers running from the mall. Danish tabloid BT published unverified video footage it said was shot by a witness to the attack, Mahdi Al-wazni, showing a man with a large rifle walking through the mall and swinging it around his shoulders.Footage published by tabloid Ekstra Bladet showed one person being carried by rescue workers into an ambulance on a stretcher.
The attack follows a shooting in neighbouring Norway last week, in which two people were killed by a lone shooter in the capital Oslo.
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