Police Say Copenhagen Attacks Suspect Killed
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Danish police shot and killed a man they believe carried out two gun attacks which left two people dead in the capital.
At a press conference, police said video surveillance indicated the man was behind attacks on a free-speech event on Saturday and Copenhagen's main synagogue early on Sunday.
The man was shot dead early on Sunday after opening fire on police, officials said, adding that no officers were wounded.
The exchange of fire took place in the multicultural inner-city neighborhood of Norrebro where police had been keeping an address under observation earlier in the day, Al Jazeera reported.
"We believe the same man was behind both shootings and we also believe that the perpetrator who was shot by the police action force at Norrebro station is the person behind the two attacks," police official Torben Moelgaard Jensen said.
Police said there was no evidence to indicate that any more suspects were involved in the incidents.
One man was killed and two police officers wounded at the synagogue, while one man was killed and three police officers were wounded in a shooting attack on a cafe in northern Copenhagen.
Denmark's Jewish Community identified the victim at the synagogue as 37-year-old Jewish man Dan Uzan, who was guarding a building during a bar mitzvah when he was shot dead at about 1am local time on Sunday morning.
The earlier shooting occurred before 4pm local time on Saturday when police said a gunman used an automatic weapon to shoot through the windows of the Krudttoenden Cafe during a panel discussion on freedom of expression.
