Police in Bulgaria and Turkey are investigating his visits to their countries. Īround 2012, he started visiting a number of countries in Asia and Europe. He grew up in Grafton, New South Wales, attended Grafton High School, and worked as a personal trainer in his hometown from 2009 to 2011. He was a member of a South Otago gun club and practised shooting at its range. Īt the time of his arrest, he had been living for a few years in Andersons Bay in Dunedin. Police charged Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian man, with murder in relation to the attacks. Ītta Elayyan, an IT entrepreneur and player in the New Zealand futsal team, was among those killed. Ī Turkish citizen died in hospital in early May. Among the dead listed in New Zealand Police media releases were citizens of Bangladesh, Egypt, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Pakistan and Palestine. The New Zealand Red Cross published a list of missing people which included nationals of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Police requested that people listed as missing though actually safe register themselves on the Restoring Family Links website. In the days following the attacks, dozens of people remained missing and several diplomatic offices and foreign ministries released statements regarding the number of victims from their nations. Two were in a serious condition, and a 4-year-old girl was transferred to Starship Hospital in Auckland in a critical condition. On 17 March, Commissioner Bush said 50 other people had been injured in the attacks, 36 of whom were being treated for gunshot wounds in hospital. The hospital's Chief of Surgery said on 16 March that four had died in ambulances en route to the hospital. Those killed were between 3 and 77 years old. įifty-one people, 47 male and 4 female, were killed in the attacks: 42 at the Al Noor Mosque, 7 at the Linwood Islamic Centre, one who died shortly after in Christchurch Hospital, and another who died in the hospital on 2 May, seven weeks after the attacks. The government established a royal commission of inquiry into its security agencies in the wake of the attacks, which are the deadliest mass shootings in modern New Zealand history. Politicians and world leaders condemned the attacks, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". The attacks have been linked to an increase in white supremacism and alt-right extremism globally observed since about 2015.
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Tarrant was later charged with 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act he pleaded not guilty to all charges, with the trial expected to start in May 2020. Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian man, described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right, was arrested and initially charged with one murder. The attacks killed 51 people and injured 49. The gunman live-streamed the first attack on Facebook Live.
The attacks began at the Al Noor Mosque in the suburb of Riccarton at 1:40 p.m.and continued at the Linwood Islamic Centre at about 1:55 p.m.
The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive terrorist shooting attacks at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday Prayer on 15 March 2019. Wikipedia : Christchurch mosque shootings