Pakistani shot dead after Eid prayers in Denmark

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A Pakistani was killed and two others were injured after a shooting outside a Copenhagen mosque following prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Tuesday, police said. Police spokesman Lau Thygesen said the shooting took place outside the Muslim Culture Institute, located in the Danish capital’s western Vesterbro district, and that the roads surrounding the mosque and a nearby car park had been cordoned off.
“After the prayer, there apparently was some kind of quarrel between two groups. I don’t know if both (groups) had been inside the mosque,” Thygesen said. “The quarrel turned into a scuffle which was followed by the shooting.” Two other people were injured in the melee, one of whom fled in a car and was later found in a hospital in the Swedish city of Malmo, that is located across a waterway from Copenhagen, Thygesen said. No arrests have been made but police were on the lookout for “several perpetrators,” he said.

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