MALMO – The man who died in a shooting at a shopping centre in Sweden was the target of the attack, police said yesterday.
A man and a woman were wounded in a shooting at a mall in the southern city of Malmo on Friday, with the man eventually succumbing to his injuries and the woman hospitalised.
Yesterday, Malmo police chief Petra Stenkula told a press conference that “Actually, everything leads us to believe that this man was the target of this execution.”
Police said they have arrested the 15-year-old suspected shooter.
The woman victim, who is in serious condition, was thought to have been a passerby.
Police consider the shooting to be “an isolated criminal incident” and have excluded any terror links.
“Firing in a shopping mall is absolutely pitiless with a total disregard for other people’s lives,” Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson told a press conference while on a campaign trail in Malmo.
In July, three people were killed in a shooting in a shopping mall in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, around 30km from Malmo.
Crime has become an important issue weeks ahead of elections. – AFP, August 21, 2022
