Large police reinforcements were dispatched to the vicinity of the Fields shopping center in the Amager district, located between the city center and the airport of the capital.
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“Several” people were killed and several others were injured late Sunday, July 3, after a shooting in a large shopping center in Copenhagen, Danish police announced at a press conference. The suspect arrested by police earlier in the evening is a “22-year-old Dane”said Copenhagen Police Chief Inspector Søren Thomassen. “There is no record of other shooters at this time.”, he added.
Large police reinforcements have been dispatched to the vicinity of the Fields shopping center in the Amager district, located between the city center and the airport of the capital, said the police of Copenhagen on Twitter at the time of the shots. “We are on the spot, shots were fired and several people were hit”she wrote.
When the first shots were heard, more than a hundred people rushed outside the shopping mall, according to witnesses quoted by Danish media. Police are calling on those within the building to await his arrival inside, and for all others to stay away from the area.