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Police arrested three men and one woman on charges of organizing the shooting in the mosque in the city of Christchurch. This was announced by the Commissioner of police of the city during a press conference
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In the words of police Commissioner Mike Bush, all those arrested taken to police headquarters where investigators are working with them
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According to the original newspaper Otago Daily Times, during the incident, was 27 people were killed, about 30 wounded were taken to hospitals in the city. Police are urging residents not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary
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Police arrested three men and one woman on charges of organizing the shooting in the mosque in the city of Christchurch. This was announced by the Commissioner of police of the city during a press conference, which was broadcast by the New Zealand Herald. The shooting killed dozens of people. According to preliminary data, the terrorist act committed on the basis of neo-Nazism and Islamophobia.
Initially it was reported about the death of 27 people. But then the number of victims has increased to 40. This figure, which also is not final, cause CNN and TASS with reference to the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern.
Ten of them were killed in the mosque of Lynnwood, and three victims were outside. Ardern also noted that the level of assessment of risks to national security raised to highest.
Authorities are considering the incident as a terrorist attack. “Now it’s pretty clear that these attacks can only be described as a terrorist attack,” – said the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern.
In the words of police Commissioner Mike Bush, all those arrested taken to police headquarters where investigators are working with them. “Not yet established exactly how many people were involved in the attacks and whether all of them were arrested, but the investigation is continuing,” said the Commissioner. A police spokesman could not name the exact number of dead, saying only that the incident affected “a significant number of people.”
The Commissioner also said that after the shooting parked near mosques, the car was discovered several improvised explosive devices, none of which was powered.
The video of the arrest one of the suspects published by the media.
Armed men entered in the mosque of al-Nur and Lynnwood, located next door, around 13:45 local time (04:46 MSK) immediately after a day of prayer and blocked the front door. Witnesses reported that at the time of capture in the mosques remained about 200 and 300 people respectively. Then shots rang out.
One of the gunmen who opened fire in the mosque, was 28-year-old Aussie Brenton Tarrant who hold far-right views. On the eve of the attack, he in social networks has published a Manifesto calling for the murder of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. A young man filmed the shooting on video, and on the horns for the machine wrote the date of “the key moments of the formation of European civilization.” As reported by Telegram-channel Mash, one of them was the battle of the Kagul, which occurred in 1770 during the Russo-Turkish war.
Another one of the cones is found the name of Milos Obilic – the hero of the battle between Serbs and Turks at Kosovo field, June 15 1389 that killed the military commander of the Serbian Prince Lazar and Turkish Sultan Murad: according to one version, Obilic, posing as a defector, made his way to the Murad and killed him, and then was himself killed by guards of the Sultan.
According to the original newspaper Otago Daily Times, during the incident, was 27 people were killed, about 30 wounded were taken to hospitals in the city. Police are urging residents not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary. All schools and government offices in the city are closed. According to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in New Zealand, the Russian citizens among victims are not present.
The civil aviation authority of New Zealand reported that the area of Christchurch declared “controlled airspace”. “The exact death toll is not yet known. But it is clear that this is one of the darkest days in the history of New Zealand,” said Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern immediately after the attack.
Previously the new Zealand flag carrier Air New Zealand released a statement, which particularly says that in connection with the tragic events in Christchurch all tickets purchased on flights to the city or out of it, “are tickets with open date and the right of return with full compensation”. These data are cited by TASS.
New Zealand police has also requested the temporary closing down of all mosques in the country. The corresponding statement was published on Twitter of the police.
“We continue to work on the investigation of accidents in the mosques Christchurch and can confirm that these were the two related to each other incident. At this stage, yet nothing can be said about the motives and intentions of the attackers, who now works with the investigators. In this regard, we have asked all mosques in the country to temporarily close its doors and advise people to refrain from visiting such places until further notice”, – stated in the message of the police.