New Zealand stabbings: police made repeated attempts to curb ‘highly paranoid’ man

As number of victims updated from six to seven, police say ‘every legal avenue’ was explored to try to contain threat of attack

The Guardian

By Tess McClure in Christchurch
Photograph: Robert Kitchin/AFP/Getty Images

Seven people were injured in the Islamic State-inspired terror attack in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has said, updating initial reports that only six people had been hurt.

Speaking at a media conference in Wellington on Saturday, New Zealand’s prime minister said that of the seven injured, five were in hospital, and three of them were in a critical condition.

The identity of the attacker, a Sri Lankan who was shot dead by police after the attack at a supermarket in Auckland on Friday, remains suppressed.

Publish : 2021-09-04 13:12:00

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