Police took over the front, shot the terrorist, took the injured to the hospital
An incident of stabbing has come to light on Friday at a supermarket located in Auckland, New Zealand. Describing it as a terrorist attack, the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that an ISIS-inspired terrorist stabbed six people in an Auckland supermarket on Friday. However, the police shot and killed the terrorist. The PM called the entire incident wrong, condemnable and full of hatred. The attacker, who came to New Zealand in 2011, was a Sri Lankan national.
According to the information, as soon as the information about the stabbing incident was received, the policemen reached the spot and shot the attacker. Due to the death, the attacker had injured six people by stabbing them. At the same time, scared people were seen leaving the supermarket. Police said the attack happened when the attackers entered the Countdown supermarket in the city’s New Lin suburb, while people were shopping in the afternoon. The police located the ‘terrorist’ and then shot him. Thus he was killed on the spot
The motive behind these attacks has not been revealed yet. The injured people were taken to the hospital after being stabbed in the attack, out of which the condition of three people is said to be critical.
Let us tell you that in May in Dunedin, New Zealand, there was a similar attack in a supermarket. During this, an assailant stabbed and injured four people inside the supermarket. The biggest terrorist attack in New Zealand happened in March 2019. In fact, a white supremacist gunman opened fire at mosques in Christchurch. In the firing of the attacker, 51 Muslim worshipers were killed and another was seriously injured.
Regarding the information about this attack, eyewitnesses said that the attacker started attacking people showing knives. Lockdown is currently in force in Auckland due to the dangerous Delta variant of Coronavirus. Because of this not many people came out.