Man dead in Sweden mall shooting was target: police

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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