A man shot dead by police near a Copenhagen train station is believed to be behind two fatal attacks hours earlier in the city.
Danish officers said they had killed the man after he opened fire on them close to Norrebro Station.
They said CCTV indicated he was responsible for an attack at a cafe on Saturday afternoon and another two miles away at a synagogue, just hours later.
Investigators said there was nothing to suggest other gunmen were involved in the shootings that left two people dead and five police officers wounded.
The attack at the city's main synagogue in Krystalgade just after midnight UK time saw one man killed after being shot in the head and two policemen also shot, one in the arm and the other in the leg.
A major manhunt was already under way after the first attack, in which one man was killed and three police officers injured when a gunman opened fire at a cafe where a meeting on free speech was taking place.
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt described the assault on the cafe - which happened during a debate on free speech - as "a terrorist attack", while the United States called it "deplorable".
The Copenhagen attacks had echoes of last month's Paris shootings, where Islamist gunmen targeted the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket.
The chairman of the Nordic Jewish Security Council, Michael Gelvan, said the man shot dead at the synagogue was Jewish.
He described the victim as a "young man", who he said had been responsible for "access control" at the place of worship.
Police had earlier said the gunman responsible for the synagogue attack fled on foot, and urged people in the centre of the city to remain indoors.
Sky News cameraman Pete Milnes, who was in a hotel next to the synagogue when the shootings took place, said: "There was a succession of about six or seven gunshots.
"Within a minute or so, armed police were on the scene, a helicopter was hovering overhead. I witnessed police apprehend an individual who was handcuffed and later released.
"There were 20 to 30 armed police officers with semi-automatic rifles shouting at locals to stay indoors and close windows."
He said later: "There's probably a dozen or so armed officers and a few detectives with sniffer dogs who seem to be combing the area ... and lifting drain covers.
"Now they're just sealing off the area."
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Gallery: Two Killed In Cafe And Synagogue Shootings
Two people have been killed and five police officers were injured in two shootings in the Danish capital Copenhagen. This is the scene of the cafe attack on Saturday
He was later shot dead by officers here, near one of the city's train stations, after reportedly opening fire on them
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