Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack
New Zealand authorities said Friday they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack. She said the man was a Sri Lankan national who was inspired by the Islamic State group. She said he was well known to the nation’s security agencies and was being monitored around the clock.She said that by law, the man was not allowed to be kept in prison.
Ardern said that three of those who had been stabbed were seriously injured.
“This was a violent attack. It was senseless,” Ardern said. “And I am so sorry that it happened.”The attack unfolded at about 2:40 p.m. at a Countdown supermarket in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland. 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.
Source: cbc.ca
