“I’ve lived next door to this mosque for about five years and the people are great, they’re very friendly,” he said.
He said he helped about five people recover in his home. “I don’t understand how anyone could do this to these people, to anyone. There were three in the hallway, at the door leading into the mosque, and people inside the mosque,” he said. He said he then went into the mosque to try to help. Peneha, who lives next door to the mosque, said the gunman ran out of the mosque, dropped what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon in his driveway, and fled. Witness Len Peneha said he saw a man dressed in black enter the mosque and then heard dozens of shots, followed by people running from the mosque in terror. The deadliest attack occurred at the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch at about 1:45 p.m., when 41 people were killed. He said they had disabled one and were in the process of disabling the second. They are us.”Īs for the suspects, Ardern said, “these are people who I would describe as having extremist views that have absolutely no place in New Zealand.”īush said police had found two improvised explosive devices in one car, a clarification from an earlier statement that there were devices in multiple vehicles. He did not say whether police believed the same shooter was responsible for both attacks.Īrdern alluded at a news conference to anti-immigrant sentiment as the possible motive, saying that while many people affected by the shootings may be migrants or refugees, “they have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said Friday night that a man had been charged with murder.
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