Three police officers were injured after shots were fired at a meeting in Copenhagen being attended by a Swedish artist who has faced threats for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
Danish reports said on Saturday there were about 30 bullet holes in the window of the Krudttønden cafe where the meeting organised by Lars Vilks was being held.
TV2 reported that at least two people were taken away on stretchers, including a uniformed police officer.
Niels Ivar Larsen, one of the speakers at the event, said that he saw two wounded people.
Helle Merete Brix, one of the organisers of the event, said that Vilks had been attending the event but was not injured.
The artist receives police protection when he is in Denmark.
The cafe in northern Copenhagen, known for its jazz concerts, was hosting an event titled "Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression" when the shots were fired.
Vilks outraged many Muslims in 2007 after he depicted the prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog.
In September that year Vilks had a $100,000 ( bounty placed on his head by an al-Qaida faction in Iraq in response to his drawings.
In 2010 Swedish newspapers reprinted the controversial cartoon after two Muslim men were arrested and subsequently charged in the Irish Republic in connection with an alleged plot to murder Vilks.
Two suspects still at large.
~The Guardian.
-The BBC
-RT.com
