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Reports of shootings in Wilmington and Holbæk; injury figures and details conflict

Two outlets describe shootings with differing dates, locations and numbers of injured people, and the picture remains incomplete.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 11, 2026, 10:18 p.m. ET
Police responded to shootings reported in two separate accounts that could not be reconciled from the available material. According to 6abc.com, citing a WPVI report, police were called shortly after 6 a.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, to 10th and Spruce streets in , , for a shooting. The Local (thelocal.dk) reported a shooting on a Sunday afternoon in , in , Denmark, dated August 9, 2026. The number of injured people differs between the two outlets: people seriously injured, according to thelocal.dk, and people, according to 6abc.com. The figures in the 6abc.com account were attributed to police, per the WPVI report, as of 2:37 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2026. Neither figure has been reconciled with the other, and this report does not resolve which describes which incident. Police were the responding agency in both accounts, as reported by thelocal.dk and 6abc.com. The location detail available differs in granularity — a specific in the 6abc.com account, and the only in the thelocal.dk account. Officials have not released the identities of anyone injured. No cause or circumstances have been established, and this remains a developing situation with the reporting incomplete. Anyone with information is asked to contact

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