WELLINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a knife-wielding “extremist” who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket. “A violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack on innocent New Zealanders,” Ardern told a briefing. A witness told the New Zealand Herald the attacker had shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest). Ardern said the reasons the attacker was known to authorities were subject to court suppression orders over legal proceedings. Ardern, asked if the Friday attack could have been revenge for the 2019 mosque shootings, said it was not clear.

Source: Egypt Independent September 03, 2021 09:33 UTC