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One dead in Sweden shopping mall shooting

A man was killed and a woman seriously injured in a shooting at a mall in the southern city of Malmo on Friday.

The man who died was the target of the attack, police said on Saturday.

The chief of Malmo police, Petra Stenkula, told a press conference that “Actually, everything leads us to believe that this man was the target of this execution.”

Police have said that they have arrested the 15-year-old suspected shooter. The woman victim, who remains in a serious condition in hospital, was thought to have been a passerby.

Police consider the shooting to be “an isolated criminal incident” and have excluded any terror links.
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Police officers at the scene of a shooting in a shopping centre in Malmö, Sweden, 19 August 2022 / © TT News Agency/AFP

Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying the suspect had shot indiscriminately into the crowd, but the police did not confirm this.

“We believe that the immediate danger is now over,” a police spokeswoman said.

In July, three people were killed in a shooting in a shopping mall in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, around 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Malmo.

A previous version of this article erroneously stated that the woman had died.

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