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Several fatalities leave a shooting in a shopping center in Copenhagen

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The Danish police reported this Sunday about several fatalities left by a shooting recorded in a shopping center in Copenhagen, for which a 22-year-old Danish man was arrested, the authorities say that at the moment they do not know the suspect’s motives for carrying out the attack .

In the images taken by the agencies and local media, the heavily armed officials are observed and taking the necessary precautionary measures due to the presence of possible shooters in the area, for which a massive search operation was activated throughout the local region of Zeeland.

“There are several injured and what we also know is that there are several dead,” Police Chief Inspector Soren Thomassen told a news conference.

He reported that everything seems to indicate that the attack was perpetrated by a single shooter, because after the deployment in the Rigshospitalet shopping center, the police found no evidence of the presence of others involved.

Police Chief Soeren Thomassen making a statement to the press.
Police Chief Soeren Thomassen making a statement to the press. AFP – EMIL HELMS

Upon arrival at the scene, the police officers who were alerted as soon as the event began evacuated the shopping center and mobilized assistance material to attend to the possible wounded.

“People first thought it was a thief. Then suddenly I heard gunshots and jumped behind the counter inside the store,” Rikke Levandovski, who was at the scene at the time of the attack, told a local station.

People who witnessed the shooting hug outside the scene of the attack.
People who witnessed the shooting hug outside the scene of the attack. AFP – OLAFUR STEINAR GESTSSON

A group of people was taken to the capital’s main hospital for treatment, but the specific number is still unknown. However, in the face of the emergency, the health center called its staff to reinforce the guard with surgeons and nurses.

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