NZ - Attacker shot dead, 6 injured (3 critical) in supermarket stabbing, Auckland, Sept 2021

[ZoriahNZ]

Man shot dead by police, six injured, after terror attack at Auckland's LynnMall Countdown

We're already stressed out because of the Delta outbreak causing a nationwide lockdown and now this extremist has to go spread terror in one of the few places people are allowed to visit or work at. I'm disgusted and heartbroken. I hope the people badly injured manage to pull through.

 

[everybodhi]

Man shot dead by police, six injured, after terror attack at Auckland's LynnMall Countdown

We're already stressed out because of the Delta outbreak causing a nationwide lockdown and now this extremist has to go spread terror in one of the few places people are allowed to visit or work at. I'm disgusted and heartbroken. I hope the people badly injured manage to pull through.

Terrifying. One victim escaped by bus.

"..he had a knife, a pretty big knife - like I would say the size of his arm. It was very scary. It was like a mini sword, not like a full sword. It was like a sword literally."

A man, who didn't wish to be named, filmed an injured woman being taken off a bus at New Lynn train station.
In the video, the woman appears to be bleeding from an injury near her left shoulder.
The man, who lives in an apartment overlooking the station, said more than seven police cars rushed to the scene just before 3pm.
They blocked both ends of the road near the station as three ambulances also arrived.
Police got onto the bus first, before paramedics joined them.
Shortly after they can be seen in the video carrying the woman off the bus. She is still conscious as they lay her onto a stretcher.

Auckland mall terrorist attack: Brave bystander helps wounded woman after stabbing - NZ Herald

 

[ZoriahNZ]

From what is being reported so far, the man allegedly took a knife from a rack in the supermarket where he committed the attack. We don't sell weapons (especially swords) in any of our supermarkets. My guess is that it was a large kitchen knife.

Also, since he was under heavy surveillance, I would think he would have been arrested if spotted carrying a long sword when leaving his home.

 

[everybodhi]

I wonder what it cost to have an armed tactical team and national security agents follow someone 24/7

Auckland mall terror attack: Isis sympathiser had been arrested for allegedly planning 'lone wolf' knife attack - NZ Herald
The offender is a 32-year-old man — known only as "S" for legal reasons — who has been on the police's radar for several years, the Herald revealed last month.

S was considered a threat to public safety after twice buying large hunting knives and possessing Islamic State videos.

He had only recently been released from prison and was under constant surveillance from police, including an armed tactical team, and national security agencies.

Last year, the Crown had sought to prosecute S under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, but a High Court judge ruled that preparing a terrorist attack was not in itself an offence under the legislation.

 

[dotr]

Knife attack that wounded 6 at New Zealand supermarket was terrorist attack: PM
''Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the violence as a terror attack. She said the man was a Sri Lankan national who was inspired by the Islamic State group and was well known to the nation's security agencies.

Ardern said she had been personally briefed on the man in the past but there had been no legal reason for him to be detained.

“Had he done something that would have allowed us to put him into prison, he would have been in prison,” Ardern said.

The attack unfolded at about 2:40 p.m. at a Countdown supermarket in New Zealand's largest city.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said a police surveillance team and a specialist tactics group had followed the man from his home in the suburb of Glen Eden to the supermarket in New Lynn.

But while they had grave concerns about the man, they had no particular reason to think he was planning an attack on Friday, Coster said. The man appeared to be going into the store to do his grocery shopping.''

 

[ZoriahNZ]

Some really great news, all the victims are recovering and stable:

Auckland terror attack: Victims no longer in critical condition


We have legislation on the table, expected to pass in September, which will finally close the legal loophole that the suspect benefited from. Once it passes it will be illegal to plan or prepare for a terrorist attack - whether or not it is actually carried out.

New Zealand stabbings: new law to close loophole to pass in September, says Ardern

 

[everybodhi]

Some really great news, all the victims are recovering and stable:

Auckland terror attack: Victims no longer in critical condition


We have legislation on the table, expected to pass in September, which will finally close the legal loophole that the suspect benefited from. Once it passes it will be illegal to plan or prepare for a terrorist attack - whether or not it is actually carried out.

New Zealand stabbings: new law to close loophole to pass in September, says Ardern

I'm so happy to hear that they are recovering, best news today.
It's good NZ doesn't allow access to guns with a big magazines firing multiple rounds.
It's too bad it sometimes takes a tragedy to see the obvious but at least more change is coming.

 

[ZoriahNZ]

I'm so happy to hear that they are recovering, best news today.
It's good NZ doesn't allow access to guns with a big magazines firing multiple rounds.
It's too bad it sometimes takes a tragedy to see the obvious but at least more change is coming.

I know, I can't imagine the devastation that could have happened within 60 seconds with a gun instead. The mosque massacre absolutely shook the nation in that regard. We will continue to heavily restrict guns because of their potential to destroy lives with impunity.

From what I understand the legislation had been drafted for some time, but now the impetus is to get it through parliament as soon as possible. The great thing is that the main opposition party has no objections, is fully supportive of the move to expedite.