Danish police say several dead after Copenhagen mall shooting

A woman and children flee the Field's shopping center after a shooting, in Copenhagen. (Olafur Steinar Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

A gunman opened fire in a Copenhagen shopping centre, one of the largest of its kind in Scandinavia, killing several people and wounding a number of others on Sunday, police said.

The suspected gunman, who is in custody, is a 22-year-old Danish man who was detained near the Fields shopping centre on the southern outskirts of the capital, said police inspector Soren Thomassen, head of the Copenhagen police operations unit.