Denmark in shock as gunman kills three at Copenhagen shopping mall | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Wednesday
May 21, 2025

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Epaper
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Banking
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • Videos
    • TBS Today
    • TBS Stories
    • TBS World
    • News of the day
    • TBS Programs
    • Podcast
    • Editor's Pick
  • World+Biz
  • Features
    • Panorama
    • The Big Picture
    • Pursuit
    • Habitat
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Mode
    • Tech
    • Explorer
    • Brands
    • In Focus
    • Book Review
    • Earth
    • Food
    • Luxury
    • Wheels
  • Subscribe
    • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Sports
    • TBS Graduates
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • Gallery
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Magazine
    • Climate Change
    • Health
    • Cartoons
  • বাংলা
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025
Denmark in shock as gunman kills three at Copenhagen shopping mall

World+Biz

Reuters
04 July, 2022, 01:00 am
Last modified: 04 July, 2022, 10:38 am

Related News

  • China 'fully' respects Denmark's sovereignty on Greenland: foreign minister
  • Denmark could eradicate cervical cancer by 2040: Study
  • Denmark, Finland and Singapore: How life is in countries with least corruption
  • Denmark, Bangladesh join forces to combat antimicrobial resistance
  • CPD, Denmark embassy ink deal for green transition and sustainable development

Denmark in shock as gunman kills three at Copenhagen shopping mall

Denmark last saw a militant attack in 2015; two people were killed and six police officers wounded when a lone gunman shot and killed a man outside a culture centre, and later killed a person outside a Jewish synagogue in central Copenhagen

Reuters
04 July, 2022, 01:00 am
Last modified: 04 July, 2022, 10:38 am
People leave Field's shopping centre, after Danish police said they received reports of shooting, in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson via REUTERS
People leave Field's shopping centre, after Danish police said they received reports of shooting, in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson via REUTERS
  • Several killed, several injured in mall shooting
  • Police say have arrested one suspect
  • Footage shows people fleeing in panic
  • Currently nothing to suggest racist motive, police say

Three people were killed and several more were woundedin a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen on Sunday, Danish police said, adding they had arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.

The attack rocked Denmark at the end of an otherwise joyful week, just after it hosted the first three stages of the Tour de France cycle race. The event had sent hundreds of thousands of cheering Danes into the streets across the country.

In pictures: Deadly shooting at mall in Copenhagen

"Denmark was hit by a cruel attack on Sunday night. Several were killed. Even more wounded. Innocent families shopping or eating out. Children, adolescents and adults," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a statement late on Sunday.

The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel

"Our beautiful and usually so safe capital was changed in a split second," she said. "I want to encourage the Danes to stand together and support each other in this difficult time."

Copenhagen police said armed officers were sent to Field's mall in the 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.

People react outside Field's shopping centre, after Danish police said they received reports of shooting, in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson via REUTERS
People react outside Field's shopping centre, after Danish police said they received reports of shooting, in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 3, 2022. Ritzau Scanpix/Olafur Steinar Gestsson via REUTERS

The suspect was apprehended at 5:48 p.m. local time (1548 GMT), carrying a rifle and ammunition. Police launched a massive search operation throughout the local Zealand region early Sunday evening in search of any accomplices.

"We are going to have a large investigation and a massive operational presence in Copenhagen until we can say with certainty: He was alone," Thomassen said.

The shooter had killed a man in his forties and two "young people", a man and a woman, Thomassen said. Several more were wounded, and among those were three in critical condition.

The investigation so far did not point towards a racist motive or otherwise, but this could change, he said.

Copenhagen police will hold a press briefing Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. local time.

The capital's main hospital, Rigshospitalet, had received a "small group of patients" for treatment, a spokesperson said early Sunday evening, 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 ... Then I suddenly hear shots and threw myself behind the counter inside the store," an eyewitness, Rikke Levandovski, told broadcaster TV2.

"He is just shooting into the crowd, not up in the ceiling or into the floor," she added.

The multi-storey shopping mall is located around 5 kilometres (3 miles) south of downtown Copenhagen.

"My friend and I ... suddenly we hear shots. I hear about ten shots and then run as fast as we can into a toilet. We squeeze into this tiny toilet where we are around 11 people," another witness who gave her name as Isabella told public broadcaster DR.

The attack follows a deadly shooting in neighbouring Norway last week, in which two people were killed by a lone shooter in the capital Oslo. 

The terrorist threat against Denmark is currently assessed to be "serious", with the biggest threat coming from "militant Islamism", according to the latest report from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.

The threat to Denmark from right-wing extremists is considered at a "general" level, which means there is capability and/or intent and possibly planning.

Denmark last saw a militant attack in 2015, when two people were killed and six police officers wounded when a lone gunman shot and killed a man outside a culture centre hosting a debate on freedom of speech, and later killed a person outside a Jewish synagogue in central Copenhagen.

That gunman was killed in a shoot-out with police.

A concert due to be held by singer Harry Styles in Copenhagen on Sunday night not far from the shopping centre was cancelled, police said.

"Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with the victims, their relatives and all those affected by the tragedy," Denmark's Queen Margrethe and the Crown Prince couple said in a statement.

An event in Southern Denmark to commemorate the end of the Tour de France stages, hosted by the Crown Prince and with Frederiksen in attendance, was also cancelled.

The suspect will face preliminary questioning in front of a judge early on Monday.

Top News

Copenhagen shooting / Denmark / Mass shooting

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Infograph: TBS
    How Renata's Tk1,000cr investment plan became a Tk1,400cr problem
  • The High Court Division of Bangladesh. File Photo: Collected
    HC order on writ seeking to suspend EC gazette declaring Ishraque as Dhaka South mayor today
  • A file photo of the NBR Bhaban in Agargaon, Dhaka
    Bangladesh moves to scrap import taxes on 100 items to boost trade with US

MOST VIEWED

  • Photo: TBS
    Who should run Bangladesh's busiest container terminal?
  • Demra Police Station officials with singer Mainul Ahsan Noble following his arrest from Dhaka's Demra area in the early hours of 20 May 2025. Photo: DMP
    Singer Noble arrested, sent to jail after woman allegedly confined, raped by him for 7 months rescued
  • Saleh Uddin Ahmed. Sketch: TBS
    Large depositors in troubled banks to be offered shares, bonds: Salehuddin
  • Photo shows actress Nusraat Faria produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court on Monday, 19 May 2025. File Photo: Focus Bangla
    Nusraat Faria gets bail
  • Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, special assistant to the chief adviser at the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology speaks at a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy on Tuesday, 20 May 2025. Photo: PID
    NoC is mandatory in installing Starlink connections: Taiyeb
  • Starlink could bring revolutionary changes to Bangladesh’s education, healthcare, business, and disaster management sectors. Photo: Collected
    Starlink now in Bangladesh: Package starts from Tk4,200 per month

Related News

  • China 'fully' respects Denmark's sovereignty on Greenland: foreign minister
  • Denmark could eradicate cervical cancer by 2040: Study
  • Denmark, Finland and Singapore: How life is in countries with least corruption
  • Denmark, Bangladesh join forces to combat antimicrobial resistance
  • CPD, Denmark embassy ink deal for green transition and sustainable development

Features

Football presenter Gary Lineker walks outside his home, after resigning from the BBC after 25 years of presenting Match of the Day, in London, Britain. Photo: Reuters

Gary Lineker’s fallout once again exposes Western media’s selective moral compass on Palestine

10h | Features
Fired by US aid cuts, driven by courage: A female driver steering through uncertainty

Fired by US aid cuts, driven by courage: A female driver steering through uncertainty

17h | Features
Photo: TBS

How Shahbagh became the focal point of protests — and public suffering

1d | Panorama
PHOTO: Collected

Helmet Hunt: Top 5 half-face helmets that meet international safety standards

2d | Wheels

More Videos from TBS

Western world warns Israel over aid blockade and military operation

Western world warns Israel over aid blockade and military operation

10h | TBS World
Atrai dam breaks for the second time within 4 months

Atrai dam breaks for the second time within 4 months

11h | TBS Today
How is China the 'winner' of the India-Pakistan conflict?

How is China the 'winner' of the India-Pakistan conflict?

12h | Others
Why ADP implementation rate lowest in education and health sectors?

Why ADP implementation rate lowest in education and health sectors?

13h | Podcast
EMAIL US
contact@tbsnews.net
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2025
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net