Danish Police Shoot Gunman after Copenhagen Shootings

(MENAFN- QNA) Danish police shot dead a man in Copenhagen on Sunday during an intensive manhunt after earlier shootings in which two people were killed and five were wounded.
Danish Prime Minister said on Saturday the first shooting, which bore similarities to an attack in Paris in January on the office of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, was a terrorist attack.
One man died in the first attack, on an arts cafe hosting controversial artist Lars Vilks, and another died in an attack on a synagogue close by.
Vilks is a Swede who has been threatened with death for his cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Police said they considered Vilks, the main speaker, to have been the target. A 55-year-old man died as a result of that shooting, police said early on Sunday.
"We feel certain now that it was a politically motivated attack, and thereby it was a terrorist attack," Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told journalists, speaking on Saturday close to the site of the cafe.
It was not clear if the two attacks were carried out by the same person or people.
Police were unable to apprehend the attacker in both incidents, launching a massive manhunt with helicopters roaring overhead and an array of armoured vehicles on the usually peaceful streets of Copenhagen.
By 0500 GMT, police said they had fired shots and later confirmed they killed a man in Norrebro, an area in Copenhagen not far from the sites of the two attacks.
They did not confirm any link between the man they shot and the earlier attacks or give further details. Police officials were not available for comment.