COPENHAGEN — Gunfire in a
Copenhagen mall
Sunday left several victims, Danish police said, adding that they had arrested
one person in connection with the shooting, but did not give details on a
potential motive.
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Police reinforcements have been deployed around the
large Field’s mall in the Amager district between the city center and the
airport, Copenhagen police wrote on Twitter.
“We’re on the scene, shots were fired and several
people have been hit,” they said.
Images from the scene showed women carrying their
children and ambulance personnel carrying people away on stretchers.
“Terrible reports of shooting in Fields. We do not
yet know for sure how many are injured or dead, but it is very serious,”
Copenhagen’s mayor, Sophie Andersen, said in a post to social media.
According to public broadcaster DR, at least three
people were being treated in hospital.
Eyewitnesses quoted by
Danish media said they saw
more than 100 people rush towards the mall’s exit as the first shots were
heard.
“We could see that many people suddenly ran towards
the exit and then we heard a bang. Then we ran out of Field’s too,” Thea
Schmidt, who was in the mall at time of the attack told broadcaster TV2.
One arrest
Police had urged people in
the building to wait inside for their arrival and called on others to keep away
from the area.
In addition, police asked that witnesses get in
touch with them and called on those that had visited the shopping mall to
contact their relatives.
“One person has
been arrested in connection to the shooting in Fields. Currently we are unable
to say anything else about their identity,” Copenhagen police later said in a
post to Twitter, but gave no details on a potential motive for the shooting.
At around 7:30pm (5:30pm GMT), roads around the mall
were blocked, the subway was stopped and a helicopter was flying above,
according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.
Heavily armed police officer prevented onlookers
from approaching and locals from returning to their homes.
The shooting comes just over a week after a gunman
opened fire near a gay bar in
Oslo in neighboring Norway, killing two people
and wounding 21 others.
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