A shooting in a mall in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, resulted in at least three fatalities and numerous injuries.
A 22-year-old Danish male was detained in connection with the shooting on Sunday and has been charged with manslaughter, police inspector Soren Thomassen informed reporters.It was too soon to speculate on a reason for the shooting, he said, and there was no indication that anyone else was engaged in the incident.
Following hosting the first three stages of the Tour de France bike race, the attack shook Denmark at the end of an otherwise happy week. Thousands of thousands of celebrating Danes had flooded the country's streets as a result of the incident.
"On Sunday night, Denmark was the victim of a brutal attack. Many people died. more hurt than before. innocent families dining out or shopping. Children, teenagers, and adults," the Danish prime minister stated in a statement late on Sunday.
She said, "Our lovely and typically so safe capital was changed in a split second." "In this trying time, I want to encourage the Danes to come together and support one another."On the outskirts of the Danish capital, at Field's, one of the largest shopping centers in Scandinavia, the shooting took place in the late afternoon.
When the gunfire rang out, some people hid in businesses while others fled in a terrified stampede, according to witnesses.
It's utter horror. The 53-year-old IT consultant Hans Christian Stoltz, who was bringing his kids to see British singer Harry Styles play at a concert scheduled on Sunday night next to the mall, remarked, "This is dreadful. "It's beyond… beyond anything that's imaginable," the speaker said, "you might wonder how a person can do this to another human being."Images of people leaving the mall and highly armed police officers at the site were published by the local media.Without providing further information, Thomassen stated that the casualties comprised a guy in his 40s and two "young individuals." Three of the injured, he claimed, were critically hurt.
The inspector stated that the suspect was taken into custody 11 minutes after police got the initial reports of a shooting at 5:37pm (15:37 GMT). He called the suspect "ethnic Dane," a term usually used to refer to a white person.He continued, saying that so far, the probe had not shown any evidence of a racial or other ulterior purpose, but that this could change.
Unverified video footage, which the Danish tabloid BT claimed was shot by Mahdi Al-wazni, a witness to the attack, was published online and showed a man striding through the mall while carrying a big gun across his shoulders.
Al-wazni told BT that the man "seemed really hostile and said different things."
Video obtained by tabloid Ekstra Bladet shows a single individual being escorted onto a stretcher by emergency personnel and taken to an ambulance.
"At first, everyone assumed it was a thief… A witness, Rikke Levandovski, told TV2 that "then I suddenly hear bullets and threw myself behind the counter inside the store."
She continued, "He is not shooting into the floor or into the ceiling; he is just shooting into the crowd.This will come as a major shock to the people of Denmark, according to Al Jazeera's Nadeem Baba, who is reporting from London. A relatively calm Sunday afternoon prevailed.
Styles had to postpone his concert because it was less than 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the mall and was scheduled to start at 8 p.m. (18:00 GMT).
Styles posted a message to Snapchat saying, "My crew and I pray for everyone involved in the incident in the mall in Copenhagen. I'm stunned. Love H."
The royal palace announced shortly after the shooting that a reception with Crown Prince Frederik related to the Tour de France bicycle event had been postponed.
We do not yet know the full scope of the catastrophe, but it is now obvious that more people have lost their lives and that even more have been hurt, said Queen Margrethe, her son Crown Prince Frederik, and his wife, Crown Princess Mary, in a joint statement.
They issued a statement in which they urged care and unity.The attack occurred just over a week after a shooter in Oslo, Norway's neighbor, opened fire outside a gay bar, leaving two people dead and 21 others injured.
As of February 2015, when a 22-year-old man was killed in a shootout with police during a shooting spree in the capital that left two people dead and five police officers injured, it was also the deadliest gun attack in Denmark.
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