The two mosques are about three miles apart, and the second mosque was attacked about 45 minutes after the first.īush said that four people - three men and a woman - had initially been detained, but it remained unclear whether all of them were involved. ET Thursday) in Christchurch, a city of around 375,000 people. Officers responded to reports of shots fired around 1:40 p.m. Scores of family members were awaiting news about missing loved ones, i ncluding children, at a local hospital. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said 49 people were killed with many more wounded. One man was in custody, charged with murder, and he appeared to have livestreamed much of the attacks on Facebook. "This is one of New Zealand's darkest days," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who described the shootings as a terrorist attack that appeared to have been well-planned. Until Friday, the biggest massacre in New Zealand’s history happened nearly 30 years ago, when a man killed 13 people in a shooting rampage.Nearly 50 worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand were gunned down during Friday prayers in what the country's prime minister called "an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence." Our gun laws will change,” she said at a news conference in Wellington. “While work is being done as to the chain of events that lead to both the holding of this gun license and the possession of these weapons, I can tell you one thing right now. She said the primary perpetrator was in possession of a gun license and used five guns during the attack – including two semi-automatic weapons and two shotguns. Prime Minister Ardern announced early Saturday local time that New Zealand’s gun laws would change in response to the terror attack. New Zealand’s gun control laws scrutinized She told reporters that none of the people who had been arrested, including Tarrant, had been on any watch lists. She added that he was based in Dunedin, New Zealand at the time of the attack. Tarrant has traveled around the world, “with sporadic periods of time spent in New Zealand,” Ardern said in a press conference. Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald/Pool/Reuters New Zealand requires that his face is pixelated. It is filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments, as well as explanations for an attack.īrenton Tarrant appears in the Christchurch District Court. Its author claims to be a 28-year-old white man, born in Australia. Just before the shootings, a link to an 87-page manifesto on Twitter and 8chan, an online messaging board that has been used by anonymous accounts to share extremist messages and cheer on mass shooters, was posted to an account in Tarrant’s name He was silent during his court appearance and has been remanded in custody to reappear in court on April 5. During his brief appearance, Tarrant was handcuffed and accompanied by three officers armed with tasers. He appeared in Christchurch district court on Saturday. Mass shooting suspect charged with murder in New Zealand (Photo by Tessa BURROWS / AFP) (Photo credit should read TESSA BURROWS/AFP/Getty Images) Tessa BurrowsAFP/Getty Images Attacks on two Christchurch mosques left at least 49 dead on March 15, with one gunman - identified as an Australian extremist - apparently livestreaming the assault that triggered the lockdown of the New Zealand city. A police officer secures the area in front of the Masjid al Noor mosque after a shooting incident in Christchurch on March 15, 2019.
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