My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. They gave no details about those taken into custody except to say that none had been on any watch list. Police did not say whether the same person was responsible for both shootings.
Several more people were killed in an attack on a second mosque in the city a short time later.Īt least 48 people were wounded, some critically. He also livestreamed in graphic detail 17 minutes of his rampage at Al Noor Mosque, where, armed with at least two assault rifles and a shotgun, he sprayed worshippers with bullets over and over, killing at least 41 people. The gunman who carried out at least one of the mosque attacks posted a jumbled, 74-page manifesto on social media under the name Brenton Tarrant, identifying himself as a 28-year-old Australian and white supremacist who was out to avenge attacks in Europe perpetrated by Muslims. Man who identified himself as Brenton Tarrant, 28, of Australia filmed self just before live streaming mass shooting at mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand /UowqUymsD2 She pronounced it “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.”
“It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, noting that many of the victims could be migrants or refugees. It was by far the deadliest shooting in modern New Zealand history.
