New Zealand police kill 'extremist' after he stabs 6 people

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.

' it was hateful, it was wrong, it was carried out by an individual, not a faith ' she said / Arden

Wonder how many we just brought in. Lord knows,we have to many American born terrorist already.

PM Ardern has described the incident as a terror attack and said the man was a Sri Lankan national who was well known to New Zealand security agencies and was being monitored around the clock.

That's exactly what we need to do to ours. It would save a lot of expensive trails. It might make others think twice.

ISIS is trying to make a comeback.

Terrorist with knife. Hmm.

Yet the GQP is still trying to make Ashli Babbitt a martyr.

We'd be talking about how many people were killed if the sociopath had a gun instead of a knife.

Was that rogue or just mad dog syndrome

New Zealand needs knife buy-backs.

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