New Zealand, March 15 (TNS): In New Zealand, 49 people were killed when gunmen targeted worshippers in two mosques during Friday prayers in Christchurch on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police Commissioner Mike Bush said forty-nine people were killed at two mosques and one man in his late 20s charged with murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incidents occurred at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch and a mosque in the suburb of Linwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A gunman broadcast live footage on Facebook of the attack on one mosque, after publishing a manifesto in which he denounced immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One man who said he was at the Al Noor mosque told media the gunman was white and wearing a helmet and a bulletproof vest. The man burst into the mosque as worshippers were kneeling for prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing a news conference, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned the incident as terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said four people in police custody, three men and one woman, held extremist views but had not been on any police watchlists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The visiting Bangladesh cricket team was arriving for prayers at one of the mosques when the shooting started but all members were safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said one of the men in custody was Australian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All mosques in New Zealand have been asked to shut their doors, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The killings were condemned by political and Islamic leaders across Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Info Minister expresses grief over attacks at two mosques in New Zealand<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad has expressed grief over attacks at two mosques in New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a tweet on Friday, he said hearts and soul of people of Pakistan are with people of New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Minister said Pakistan suffered same situation years back and can feel and relate to the pain and misery. New Zealand, March 15 (TNS): In New Zealand, 49 people were killed when gunmen targeted worshippers in two mosques during Friday prayers in Christchurch on Friday. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said forty-nine people were killed at two mosques and one man in his late 20s charged with murder. The incidents occurred at the Al Noor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82807,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82805\/revisions\/82807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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