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Danish police believe a shopping mall shooting that left three people dead and four others seriously wounded was not terror-related.

They said on Monday that the gunman acted alone and appears to have selected his victims at random.

Copenhagen chief police inspector Soren Thomassen said the victims -- a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both Danes, and a 47-year-old Russian man -- were killed when the gunman opened fire on Sunday afternoon in the Field's shopping mall, one of Scandinavia's biggest.

Four other people -- two Danish and two Swedish citizens -- were treated for gunshot wounds and were in critical but stable condition, Thomassen said. Several other people received minor injuries as they fled the shopping mall, he added.

Thomassen said police had no indication that anyone helped the gunman, identified as a 22-year-old Dane. He said while the motive is unclear, there is nothing suggesting terrorism, and that the suspect would be arraigned later Monday on preliminary charges of murder.

"There is nothing in our investigation, or the documents we have reviewed, or the things we have found, or the witnesses' statements we have gotten, that can substantiate that this is an act of terrorism," he said.

He confirmed that the suspect was known to mental health services but provided no further information.

Danish broadcaster TV2 published a grainy photo of the alleged gunman, a man wearing knee-length shorts, a vest or sleeveless shirt, and holding what appeared to be a rifle in his right hand.

"He seemed very violent and angry," eyewitness Mahdi Al-Wazni told TV2. "He spoke to me and said it (the rifle) isn't real as I was filming him. He seemed very proud of what he was doing."

Thomassen said that beside the rifle the suspect had when detained, "we also know that he has had access to a gun and that he carried a knife."

Images from the scene showed people running out of the mall in panic. After the shooting, a big contingent of heavily armed police officers patrolled the area, with several fire department vehicles also parked outside the mall.

"It is pure terror. This is awful," said Hans Christian Stoltz, a 53-year-old IT consultant, who was bringing his daughters to see Harry Styles perform at concert scheduled for Sunday night near the mall. "You might wonder how a person can do this to another human being, but it's beyond ... beyond anything that's possible."

A Harry Styles concert scheduled for Sunday night in Copenhagen was cancelled due to the shooting.

On Snapchat, Styles wrote: "My team and I pray for everyone involved in the Copenhagen shopping mall shooting. I am shocked. Love H."

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Sunday's shooting a "cruel attack."

"It is incomprehensible. Heartbreaking. Pointless," she said. "Our beautiful and usually so safe capital was changed in a split second."

The shooting came a week after a mass shooting in neighbouring Norway, where police said a Norwegian man of Iranian origin opened fire during a LGBTQ festival, killing two and wounding more than 20.

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Three Queensland lobbyists will be barred from contacting cabinet ministers as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk seeks to make her government "the most transparent" in the country.

Ms Palaszczuk announced the move on Monday after the Coaldrake report last week raised serious concerns about lobbyists accessing and influencing her government.

Professor Peter Coaldrake called for a ban on "dual-hatting", where people who work on political campaigns are able to lobby governments after elections.

As a result, Evan Moorhead, Cameron Milner and David Nelson will be barred from lobbying any ministers or staff until after the 2024 election.

"It's for the rest of the term, then they'll have to make their own decisions," Ms Palaszczuk said after Monday's cabinet meeting.

"We believe that by implementing the Coaldrake recommendations, this will make Queensland the most transparent government in the nation."

Meanwhile, a crime and corruption probe involving the office of the Integrity Commissioner, including the wiping of a laptop, has found descriptions such as "raid" and "seizure" were inaccurate.

"The circumstances in which the laptops were retrieved from the Integrity Commissioner's office were entirely ordinary, and the descriptions of 'raid' and 'seizure' do not reflect the reality of what occurred," the report tabled on Monday said.

The circumstances in which one laptop was wiped were wholly unremarkable, it found.

The investigation also found no evidence of improper disclosure.

The issue has been a favourite of the Liberal National opposition, and Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman wants an apology.

"The misinformation that has been given to Queenslanders is astounding, she said.

"They absolutely have to correct the record."

Opposition spokeswoman for integrity, Fiona Simpson, said the report raised more questions than it answered and strengthened calls for more independence for the Integrity Commissioner.

"If the Department of Premier and Cabinet is responsible for IT in the office of the Integrity Commissioner, why did the Public Service Commission request the laptop?" she said.

The finding comes as the premier brushed off a new poll showing Labor's primary vote had fallen to its lowest level since the 2020 election.

Labor's primary vote fell to 34 per cent in June, according to the YouGov poll, from 39 per cent in February.

The poll, commissioned by News Corp, showed the Liberal National Party's primary vote unchanged at 38 per cent and the Greens' up four per cent to 14 per cent.

If an election had been held on Monday there would have been a hung parliament, but the premier isn't flustered.

"The poll that matters of course, is on election day, but we have a big job to do," she said.

The Greens used the polling numbers to issue a warning following a federal election that saw them win three lower house seats around Brisbane.

"More and more Queenslanders back our bold plan, and this poll should be a wake-up call for Labor," Greens MP for South Brisbane, Amy MacMahon said.

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Three people have been killed and several more wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen, Danish police say, adding they have arrested a 22-year-old Danish man and charged him with manslaughter.

The attack rocked Denmark at the end of an otherwise joyful week, just after it hosted the first three stages of the Tour de France cycle race. The event had sent hundreds of thousands of cheering Danes into the streets across the country.

"Denmark was hit by a cruel attack on Sunday night. Several were killed. Even more wounded. Innocent families shopping or eating out. Children, adolescents and adults," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a statement late on Sunday.

"Our beautiful and usually so safe capital was changed in a split second," she said. "I want to encourage the Danes to stand together and support each other in this difficult time."

Copenhagen police said armed officers were sent to Field's mall in the capital late on Sunday afternoon after reports of a shooting, and had told people inside to stay put and await assistance. Local media footage showed groups of terrified shoppers running from the mall.

The suspect was apprehended at 5:48pm local time, carrying a rifle and ammunition. Police launched a massive search operation throughout the local Zealand region early on Sunday evening in search of any accomplices.

"We are going to have a large investigation and a massive operational presence in Copenhagen until we can say with certainty: He was alone," Thomassen said.

The shooter had killed a man in his forties and two "young people", a man and a woman, Thomassen said. Several more were wounded, and among those were three in critical condition.

The investigation so far did not point towards a racist motive or otherwise, but this could change, he said.

The capital's main hospital, Rigshospitalet, had received a "small group of patients" for treatment, a spokesperson said, and had called in extra doctors and nurses.

Danish tabloid BT published unverified video footage it said was shot by a witness to the attack, Mahdi Al-wazni, showing a man with a large rifle walking through the mall and swinging it around his shoulders.

"He seemed very aggressive and shouted different things," Al-wazni told BT.

Footage published by tabloid Ekstra Bladet showed one person being carried by rescue workers into an ambulance on a stretcher.

"People first thought it was a thief ... Then I suddenly hear shots and threw myself behind the counter inside the store," an eyewitness, Rikke Levandovski, told broadcaster TV2.

"He is just shooting into the crowd, not up in the ceiling or into the floor," she added.

The multi-storey shopping mall is located about five kilometres south of downtown Copenhagen.

The attack follows a deadly shooting in neighbouring Norway last week, in which two people were killed by a lone shooter in the capital Oslo.

The terrorist threat against Denmark is currently assessed to be "serious", with the biggest threat coming from "militant Islamism", according to the latest report from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.

The threat to Denmark from right-wing extremists is considered at a "general" level, which means there is capability and/or intent and possibly planning.

Denmark last saw a militant attack in 2015, when two people were killed and six police officers wounded when a lone gunman shot and killed a man outside a culture centre hosting a debate on freedom of speech, and later killed a person outside a Jewish synagogue in central Copenhagen.

That gunman was killed in a shoot-out with police.

A concert due to be held by singer Harry Styles in Copenhagen on Sunday night not far from the shopping centre was cancelled, police said.

"Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with the victims, their relatives and all those affected by the tragedy," Denmark's Queen Margrethe and the Crown Prince couple said in a statement.

An event in Southern Denmark to commemorate the end of the Tour de France stages, hosted by the Crown Prince and with Frederiksen in attendance, was also cancelled.

The suspect will face preliminary questioning in front of a judge early on Monday.

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