The Danish police have arrested a 22-year-old Danish suspect, who killed several people in a shooting on Sunday in a shopping center in the capital, Copenhagen, revealing that 3 people were killed and 3 others were in critical condition.
Copenhagen police wrote on Twitter: “A person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at Fields Shopping Centre“.
The Copenhagen Metropolitan Police said a number of security personnel were sent to the Fields Mall following reports of the shooting. The police advised the people inside the station to stay in their places and wait for the help of the security men.
Local media published pictures showing heavily armed police officers at the scene, as well as people running out of the mall..
Scenes from the scene showed paramedics transporting a wounded person and mothers carrying their children and trying to calm them down.
Police have not yet determined the number of victims or their condition. For her part, the mayor of Copenhagen confirmed that a crisis cell had been formed.
When he heard the first shots, more than a hundred people rushed outside the mall, according to Danish media, quoting witnesses..
Police said they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish suspect and might not rule out that it was an “act of terrorism”. She added that there is currently no indication that there were accomplices in the shooting incident.
According to the latest report by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Denmark’s terrorist threat assessment is currently at a “severe” level.
The attack follows a shooting spree in neighboring Norway last week that killed two people in the capital, Oslo..
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