Danish authorities have prevented an attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard known for his cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused Muslims' wrath around the world four years ago.
CNN quoted police as saying that a 27-year-old Somali national wielding an axe and a knife cracked a window at the cartoonist's home in Aarhus on Friday.
Police shot the Somali reportedly linked to al-Shabaab, Al Qaeda's ally in east Africa, wounding him in the right leg and left hand.
In February 2008 several newspapers in Denmark and other countries reprinted the cartoons in protest against a life attempt on Westergaard.
At least 50 people have died in conflicts connected with the publication of the cartoons, including eight who died in the bombing of the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad in June 2008, according to the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, January 2 (RIA Novosti)
