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Denmark is on high alert after a gunman in Copenhagen killed one person and injured three others at a debate on blasphemy and free speech attended by a controversial Swedish cartoonist.

Several dozen shots were fired at the seminar and a manhunt is now under way.

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described it as a "politically motivated" act of terrorism.

Cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has faced death threats over his caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, was unhurt.

Police initially believed there had been two suspects, but later said they were searching for a lone gunman.

They released a photograph showing the alleged attacker apparently wearing a purple balaclava and thick puffer jacket.

The three injured were police officers.

a "politically motivated" act of terrorism.

Injuries in second Copenhagen shooting

Several people have been injured after shots were fired near a synagogue in Copenhagen, Danish police say.

One person was reportedly hit in the head, and two police officers suffered arm and leg injuries. The attacker is believed to have fled.

It is not clear whether the shooting is connected to an earlier attack on a cafe in the city.

There, a gunman killed one person and injured three at a free speech debate attended by a Swedish cartoonist.

Cartoonist Lars Vilks, who has faced death threats over his caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, was unhurt.
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The second shooting took place on Krystalgade street.

"We cannot say anything about the condition of the injured yet," the Danish police were were quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

"The perpetrator fled on foot," they added.

Eyewitness Rasmus Thau Riddersh told the BBC he was going out for a drink with his friends at the time. He said he did not hear the shots, but later saw a man lying on the street.

Earlier, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described the first attack as a "politically motivated" act of terrorism.

Police in Copenhagen say they have shot dead a man they believe was behind two deadly attacks in the Danish capital hours earlier.

Police say they killed the man in the Norrebro district after he opened fire on them.

It came after one person was killed and three police officers injured at a free speech debate in a cafe on Saturday.

In the second attack, a Jewish man was killed and two police officers wounded near the city's main synagogue.

Police say video surveillance suggested the same man carried out both attacks. They do not believe any other people were involved.

Danish police say the gunman believed to have attacked a free-speech debate and a Copenhagen synagogue was 22, born in Denmark and known to them because of past violence.

The presumed gunman was shot and killed early on Sunday morning by police who were monitoring an address in the Norrebro district of the city.

The man's name has not been released.

A film director and a synagogue guard were killed in separate attacks. Five police officers were also injured.

Police believe the gunman was acting alone.

He was known to them in connection with criminal gangs and had convictions for violent offences and dealing in weapons.

"It was the case that when the suspect was shot and killed during police action, he was armed with pistols," police commissioner Thorkild Fogde told a news conference.

He also said police had found a weapon which may have been used in the first shooting.

The Danish intelligence service is investigating whether the gunman was copying the shootings in Paris last month, when 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.

Earlier, the head of the intelligence service told reporters the man had been known to them, and police were working to determine whether he had travelled to Syria or Iraq.

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described the shootings as "a cynical act of terror against Denmark" and said her government would not compromise on its defence of free expression.

Ms Thorning-Schmidt later visited the synagogue and said Denmark would do everything to protect its Jewish community.

The Danish intelligence service is investigating whether the gunman was copying the shootings in Paris last month, when 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.

Denmark arrests 2 in connection with Copenhagen terrorist attacks

Danish police said Monday they have arrested two people suspected of aiding the 22-year-old responsible for the weekend murders of a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard, in a spate of terrorist attacks around Copenhagen. Previously, Danish police said they believed the gunman, killed Sunday in a shootout with police, had been working alone.

A lawyer for the two unidentified suspects denied in court on Monday that his clients had sheltered the gunman or helped him get rid of a weapon. For now, the men are being held for 10 days. The assailant, identified in Danish media as Danish-born Omar Abdel Hamid el-Hussein, reportedly killed documentary filmmaker Finn Noergaard, 55, at a free-speech event in a cafe, and Dan Uzan, 37, outside Copenhagen's main synagogue.

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