3 dead in shooting at Denmark mall, suspect arrested
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Copenhagen: Police are investigating if terrorism involved in the Sunday's shooting at the shopping mall in Danish capital that left three dead.
Shocking the nation where gun violence is relatively rare, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire whom the police arrested, according to Associated Press.
The police, nevertheless believing that the man acted alone, "can't exclude that it's terror", according to Copenhagen police inspector Søren Thomassen.
The motive for the shooting that happened in one of the biggest shopping malls in Scandinavia remain clueless.
Thomassen said it was too early to speculate on motive.
When the shots rang out, some people hid in shops while others fled in a panicked stampede, according to witnesses, the report said.
Aside from three deaths that include a man in his 40s and two young people, several others injured and three of them are critical.
Police arrested the suspect 11 minutes after they were alerted about the shooting at 5.37 p.m at the shopping mall.
Thomasses gave away only a bit about the identity of the man calling him an "ethnic Dane", which could he is a white.
A grainy photo of the man released by Danish TV2 showed a man wearing knee length shorts, a vest and was carrying a rifle in his right hand, according to the report.
One eyewitness Mahdi Al-Wazni told TV2 that the man seemed very proud of what he was doing.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said his nation was hit by a "cruel attack."
Only a week ago a mass shooting in neibouring Norway left two dead and wounded more than 20 after a Norwegian man of Iranian origin opened fire on LGBTQ festival.
This was the worst gun attack in Denmark since February 2015, when a 22-year-old man shot dead two, wounding five police officers before being shot dead by the police.
