The 74-year-old cartoonist, who was with his five-year-old granddaughter, raised the alarm from a specially designed panic room.
Police said the suspect, who had a permit to stay in Denmark, was shot in the knee and the shoulder, but his life was not in danger.
Jakob Scharf, who heads the Danish intelligence service Pet, earlier said the alleged attack was “terror related” and that the suspected assailant had close contacts to a radical Somalian insurgent group, al-Shabab.
He had been under surveillance for activities unrelated to Mr Westergaard.
The shaken cartoonist told Danish news agency Ritzau: “I locked myself in our safe room and alerted the police. He tried to smash the entrance door with an axe, but he didn’t manage.
“He used insults, I don’t remember which, but it was bad language. He spoke poor Danish and he wound up saying he’d be back.”
Mr Westergaard also told the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten, where the cartoon was originally published, that he had been taken to a safe location, but defiantly added he would be back.
Fritz Keldsen, deputy chief superintendent of Aarhus city police, said officers had arrived at Mr Westergaard’s home “in strong numbers”, after receiving the emergency call.
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