Copenhagen police on Wednesday said they had arrested six men after a gang-related shootout in an underground car park of a shopping mall left two people injured.
The men were between the ages of 19 and 26 and are linked to criminal gangs, police said in a statement.
"The two groups met in the Field's shopping centre... One group fled to the parking area, where there was gunfire between the groups and two people were hit. One of them is seriously injured," police said.
It was not clear how many shots were fired at the suburban shopping centre near Copenhagen's airport.
Eyewitnesses told the tabloid Ekstra Bladet that there was a loud argument between two groups of around five men each inside the shopping centre. They then left and gunshots were heard soon after from the underground car park.
One of the men "pulled up his shirt and brandished a large kitchen knife", Christian Schultz, a man working at a sandwich shop inside the shopping centre, told the paper.
Copenhagen has been on edge after a gunman killed two people in twin shootings last month.
Omar El-Hussein, a 22-year-old Dane of Palestinian origin, killed a filmmaker outside a cultural centre hosting a seminar on free speech and Islam, and went on to kill an unarmed Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
El-Hussein was shot dead by police in a pre-dawn shootout.
Copenhagen police on Wednesday said they had arrested six men after a gang-related shootout in an underground car park of a shopping mall left two people injured.
The men were between the ages of 19 and 26 and are linked to criminal gangs, police said in a statement.
"The two groups met in the Field's shopping centre... One group fled to the parking area, where there was gunfire between the groups and two people were hit. One of them is seriously injured," police said.
It was not clear how many shots were fired at the suburban shopping centre near Copenhagen's airport.
Eyewitnesses told the tabloid Ekstra Bladet that there was a loud argument between two groups of around five men each inside the shopping centre. They then left and gunshots were heard soon after from the underground car park.
One of the men "pulled up his shirt and brandished a large kitchen knife", Christian Schultz, a man working at a sandwich shop inside the shopping centre, told the paper.
Copenhagen has been on edge after a gunman killed two people in twin shootings last month.
Omar El-Hussein, a 22-year-old Dane of Palestinian origin, killed a filmmaker outside a cultural centre hosting a seminar on free speech and Islam, and went on to kill an unarmed Jewish security guard outside a synagogue.
El-Hussein was shot dead by police in a pre-dawn shootout.
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