Ardern said earlier that none of the detainees were on the watch lists.
Of the other three who were detained, the police commissioner said one could have had nothing to do with the attack and that the police were working to determine how the other two could have been involved.
A series of firearms were recovered from the scenes of the shooting, he said. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that one of them was Australian.īush said a man in his 20s had been charged with murder and would appear in the Christchurch courtroom Saturday morning. Police said four people, including three men and one woman, had been arrested. He said the injuries included bullet wounds and went from critical to minor. The country's police commissioner, Mike Bush, told a nightly press conference that 41 people had been killed at the Al Noor mosque and seven at the Linwood mosque, and that another victim had died at the Christchurch hospital.ĭavid Meates, executive director of the Canterbury District Health Board, said 48 people, including small children, were being treated for injuries in the hospital. The shots were fired at the Al Noor mosque on Deans Avenue in the center of the city and at the Linwood mosque, about five kilometers away, police said. An armed man broadcast a live video of the attack on Facebook, and appeared to have published an online manifesto. The police urged people to stay away from the mosques until further notice. A Muslim leader in New Zealand said the attack was especially shocking as it took place around Friday's Prayer.
Officials said that a man in his 20s had been charged with murder, and that two explosive devices were found attached to a vehicle they had stopped. On Friday, forty-nine people died in shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch, New Zealand, in a terrorist attack that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as 'an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.' New Zealand Mosque Shooting Video Full Livestream.
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