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Two other suspects remain in custody, while the fourth person arrested has since been cleared of involvement.īush said that two improvised explosive devices attached to the shooter’s vehicle have been disabled, and warned that other attackers could still be at large. Police commissioner Mike Bush said that a 28-year-old man is due to appear in court tomorrow charged with murder. Minutes before the massacre, a Twitter user of the same name posted “an 87-page manifesto that was filled with anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim ideas and explanations for an attack”, CNN reports.Īlthough New Zealand is one of the world’s most peaceful countries, Christchurch “is known to have an active white-supremacist subculture”, says The Guardian. The shooter is said to have identified himself as Brenton Tarrant, an Australian national. “We have had 12 operating theatres that have been operating since this afternoon and will be continuing through until about midnight,” he said. In all, 41 people died at Al Noor, and another seven at Linwood, while one victim has since died in hospital.Ĭanterbury District Health Board chief executive David Meates told the New Zealand Herald that surgeons expected to work into the night treating 48 victims with gunshot wounds ranging from minor to critical. Police arrested the gunman inside a car that was later found to contain several weapons and two improvised explosive devices. Farhaan Farheez, who survived the attack, told The Sydney Morning Herald: “The whole mosque was filled with blood and dead bodies.

Liveleak christchurch new zealand mosque shooting video