Hundreds of mourners attend funeral of Danish gunman

Hundreds of men attended the funeral the of 22-year-old Danish Muslim gunman who killed two people and wounded five others at a free speech event and outside a synagogue in Copenhagen last week.

Danish police said the funeral was "a private ceremony" and would not comment on local media reports that said up to 500 people attended Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein's funeral today in suburban Brondby.

The head of the Danish Islamic Funeral Foundation, Kasem Said Ahmad, said the hearse left a Copenhagen mosque after a brief ceremony and drove to the burial ground six miles away.