Copenhagen police can't rule out fatal shopping centre shooting being 'act of terrorism'

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Danish police have said the cannot rule of that the shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen was an "act of terrorism." Several people were killed when a gunman opened fire on Sunday. "There are several injured, and what we also know now is that there are several dead," Chief Police Inspector Soren Thomassen told journalists, adding police had launched a massive search operation throughout the local Zealand region.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested. Copenhagen police said armed officers were sent to Field's mall in the Danish capital late on Sunday afternoon after reports of a shooting and had told people inside to stay put and await assistance.

Local media footage showed groups of terrified shoppers running from the mall. There was no initial indication that other shooters had been present, police said, and Thomassen declined to comment on possible motives or whether the shooter was known to police.

The capital's main hospital, Rigshospitalet, had received a "small group of patients" for treatment, a spokesperson said, and had called in extra doctors and nurses.Danish tabloid BT published unverified video footage it said was shot by a witness to the attack, Mahdi Al-wazni, showing a man with a large rifle walking through the mall and swinging it around his shoulders. "He seemed very aggressive and shouted different things," Al-wazni told BT.Footage published by tabloid Ekstra Bladet showed one person being carried by rescue workers into an ambulance on a stretcher."People first thought it was a thief ...