![]() Police told me: ‘I am sorry, this is the first time this has ever happened in this country.’” “I don’t know who of my friends is dead or alive now. “The shooter was screaming a lot and waving the gun in every direction, shooting, shooting, shooting,” he said. He was at the Linwood mosque’s Friday prayer service when the shooting began, and hit the floor as women around him rose up and screamed at the gunmen “Do not come here,” some of them charging towards the gunman. ![]() Hassan, 29, a Sri Lankan Muslim who has lived in New Zealand for six months, said he came to the country for its “peace, and because there are no wars”. Linwood mosque attack graphic ‘Where are we safe now?’ None of the suspects were on terrorism watchlists, Ardern said. New Zealand’s threat level has been raised from low to high. Ardern condemned the ideology of the people behind the shootings, saying: “You may have chosen us but we utterly reject and condemn you.” The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, called the massacre a “rightwing extremist attack” and said one suspect was Australian-born, without giving further details. A Christchurch spokesperson told local media police were concerned the suspects had plans to target the victims of the mosque attack as they were transported to hospital.Ī “manifesto” was posted online before the attacks, in which the suspected gunman espoused far-right and anti-immigrant ideology. Hotels in the inner city stationed security guards at their entrances, and armed police protected landmarks of significance, including the courthouse and Christchurch hospital, which is believed to have been a further target. ![]() Heavy has decided not to show the video that was released by the shooter onto Facebook Live.New Zealand’s entire police arsenal and personnel were deployed throughout the country and en masse in Christchurch, the South Island’s largest city, which is known to have an active white-supremacist subculture. Videos Related to the Mosque Shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand *CONTENT WARNING: Many of these photos contain screenshots of the video allegedly taken by the shooter, which show bodies* So I tried too get out and I pushed myself at the back where my car was, and from there I heard the shooting, it went on six minutes or more, I could hear screaming and crying, I saw some people drop dead, some people were running away, I was in a wheelchair, so I couldn’t get anywhere. It was at the moment I realised things were really serious. It started in the main room… I was in the side room, so I didn’t see who was shooting but I saw that some people were running out to my room where I was in, I saw some people had blood on their body and some people were limping. It was very peaceful, calm and quiet, as it is when the sermon starts, you could hear a pin drop. It’s ridiculous.”Īnother witness gave a more lengthy and graphic description of what happened to The Guardian: 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. We had to jump the wall to escape.”Īnother witness said to The Washington Post, “I saw dead people everywhere. To CNN, a witness who was in the mosque said, “There were more than 200 people inside. ![]()
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