5 hours agoThe death toll goes to 49 from the attack on New Zealand
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush has indicated that the death toll from terrorist attacks on two mosques has reached 49. According to him, 41 of them were killed in Deans Avenue's mosque until the other eight were killed in the next mosque. Bush said this act counts as massacre [...]
Bush said this act is counted as the largest massacre in this country's history in the last 30 years, when a man named David Gray killed 13 people in an attack.
Currently, 48 patients with gunshot wounds are being treated at Christchurcht Hospital.
By contrast, New Zealand Prime Minister Yacinda Ardern has described the incident as a terrorist attack and as one of the country's most dark “Days.
Meanwhile, the police spokesman has announced that for this case three men and one woman are in custody until he has warned that many other suspects may still be at large.
Witnesses told local media that when the shooting occurred they ran to save their lives until they saw people bleeding near Al Noor Mosque.
Authorities have advised that all mosques in the city be closed until another announcement, saying it was an unprecedented act of violence.
