The man is understood to have posted a manifesto online and taken to Twitter with anti-Muslim rants about birthrates and white genocide. The scenes appear to have been filmed with a camera mounted on his chest. He flees the scene in his car in a relatively calm manner, laughing at times during the drive. He later shoots seemingly randomly on the street and returns to the car before heading back into the mosque again and repeating the process. The gunman begins the video by saying “let’s get this party started” and listens to American civil war music on his way to the shooting.Ĭarrying a number of automatic rifles, two jerry cans and a bag with a ‘PROUDLY KIWI AS’ logo, the gunman stops his car near the mosque, takes a gun out of the boot, then walks into the building and opens fire. “Police are responding with its full capability to manage the situation, but the risk environment remains extremely high.Photographs on the man’s Twitter page, which has since been taken down by the platform, show weapons which match the ones used in the video, scrawled with the names of infamous mass shooters
Follow LIVE updates on the Christchurch shooting here “A serious and evolving situation is occurring in Christchurch with an active shooter,” New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said. A witness told media that a man dressed in a military-style, camouflage outfit, and carrying an automatic rifle had started randomly shooting people in the mosque. New Zealand police were hunting “an active shooter” in the centre of Christchurch city on Friday after a gunman opened fire at a mosque inflicting several casualties.
Police have not yet described the scale of the shooting but urged people in central Christchurch to stay indoors.(AP Photo/Mark Baker) Many people were killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday, a witness said. Christchurch shooting: Police attempt to clear people from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand.
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