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Man dead in Sweden mall shooting was target: police

20 Aug 2022 06:58pm
Police secures the area on August 20, 2022, a day after a shooting at Emporia Shopping Center in Malmo, Sweden. - A man wounded in a shooting in a shopping centre in Sweden on August 19, 2022 has died, police said, as a woman hurt in the same attack remained in hospital. A 15-year-old suspected shooter has been arrested by the police. (Photo by Johan NILSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP) / Sweden OUT
Police secures the area on August 20, 2022, a day after a shooting at Emporia Shopping Center in Malmo, Sweden. - A man wounded in a shooting in a shopping centre in Sweden on August 19, 2022 has died, police said, as a woman hurt in the same attack remained in hospital. A 15-year-old suspected shooter has been arrested by the police. (Photo by Johan NILSSON / TT NEWS AGENCY / AFP) / Sweden OUT
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MALMO, Sweden - The man who has died in a shooting at a shopping centre in Sweden was the target of the attack, police said on Saturday.

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.

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 was 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.

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. - AFP

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