BREAKING: New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern says 40 people were killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. Follow coverage here:
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that one of the four people taken into custody in New Zealand’s mosque shootings is an Australian.
Morrison said Australians were shocked, appalled and outraged by the attack. He described the gunman as “an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist.”Indonesia’s foreign minister says six Indonesians were at the Al Noor Mosque in New Zealand when a shooting occurred and three of them escaped.Police have described multiple fatalities in shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch and say four people are in custody.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the events Friday afternoon “one of New Zealand’s darkest days.”New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said police have defused a number of improvised explosive devices found on vehicles after the mosque shootings. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a Friday afternoon news conference that one suspect was in custody but “there could be others involved.”
Ardern said at a Friday afternoon news conference, “what has happened here is an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.”
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