BREAKING: New Zealand authorities say they shot and killed a 'violent extremist' after he entered an Auckland supermarket and stabbed and injured 6 shoppers.
described the incident as a terror attack and said the man was inspired by the Islamic State group. She said he was a Sri Lankan national who was well known to the nation's security agencies and was being monitored around the clock.“This was a violent attack. It was senseless,” Ardern said. “And I am so sorry that it happened.”
Ardern said that because the man was under constant monitoring, a police surveillance team and a special tactics group were able to shoot and kill him within 60 seconds of the attack starting. “He entered the store, as he had done before. He obtained a knife from within the store,” Coster said. “Surveillance teams were as close as they possibly could be to monitor his activity.”
One bystander video taken from inside the supermarket records the sound of 10 shots being fired in rapid succession.
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