Stockholm: News of shootings in public places often comes from America. But this time the news of the firing has come from Sweden. A man injured in a shooting at a shopping center in Sweden died on Friday. According to the police, a woman injured in the attack is in the hospital, where she is undergoing treatment. According to an official statement, one person injured in the firing has died, while a woman is undergoing treatment. Police have arrested the suspected shooter of the incident in the southern city of Malmö.
According to AFP, the police have denied a terrorist connection to the incident. Local media, citing eyewitnesses, said the suspect fired indiscriminately into the crowd, but this was not confirmed by the police. In July, three people were killed in a shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, about 30 km from Malmö.
Mass violence is on the rise in Sweden, according to Reuters, and is at the top of voters’ concerns ahead of next month’s elections. According to police, 44 people have been shot and killed in Sweden so far this year. Almost all of which is in relation to a suspected mass crime of murder. At the same time, 46 people have died in gang crime in 2021.
Malmö city police representatives will hold a press conference on Saturday morning. Earlier the police had said that they have cordoned off the area and asked people to avoid going to the shopping center.
