In the video, the killer spends more than two minutes inside the mosque spraying terrified worshippers with gunfire. It’s ridiculous.”įacebook, Twitter and Google companies scrambled to take down the gunman’s video, which was widely available on social media for hours after the horrific attack. “I don’t understand how anyone could do this to these people, to anyone. There were three in the hallway, at the door leading into the mosque, and people inside the mosque,” he said. Peneha then went into the mosque to help the victims. Peneha, who lives next door, said the gunman ran out of the mosque, dropped what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon in his driveway and fled. #BREAKING: In manifesto, Christchurch mosque shooting suspect wrote "I chose firearms for the affect it would have on social discourse," also said he hoped to draw media attention and hoped to influence political matters in the United States /cCQUZlPM5tĪt the Al Noor mosque, witness Len Peneha said he saw a man dressed in black and wearing a helmet with some kind of device on top enter the house of worship and then heard dozens of shots, followed by people running out in terror. Immigrants “have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home,” she said. The prime minister said the attack reflected “extremist views that have absolutely no place in New Zealand.” It is also generally considered to be welcoming to migrants and refugees. New Zealand, with 5 million people, has relatively loose gun laws but few gun homicides. “I blame these increasing terror attacks on the current Islamophobia post-9/11 where Islam & 1.3 bn Muslims have collectively been blamed for any act of terror by a Muslim,” Khan tweeted. World leaders condemned the violence and offered condolences, with President Donald Trump tweeting, “We stand in solidarity with New Zealand.” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and other Islamic leaders pointed to the bloodbath and other such attacks as evidence of rising hostility toward Muslims. In the aftermath, the country’s threat level was raised from low to high, police warned Muslims against going to a mosque anywhere in New Zealand, and the national airline canceled several flights in and out of Christchurch, a city of nearly 400,000 people. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do.
49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. 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.
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