Death toll in New Zealand mosque shootings rises to 50
The death toll in the news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand mosque shootings has risen to 50 after investigators found another body at one of the mosques, news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand police said on Sunday, as authorities worked to identify victims and release their bodies to families.
Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday.
Brenton Tarrant, charged for murder in relation to the mosque shootings, is seen in the dock during his appearance in the Christchurch District Court, news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand, March 16, 2019. /VCG Photo
Tarrant was remanded without a plea and is due back in court on April 5 where police said he was likely to face further charges.
Friday's attacks, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labeled as terrorism, came as the worst ever peacetime mass killings in news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand and the country had raised its security threat level to the highest.
A man and woman hug each other after leaving flowers next to a cordon blocking a road that leads to Linwood mosque, one of the two mass shooting sites in Christchurch, news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand, March 17, 2019. /VCG Photo
Footage of the attack on one of the mosques was broadcast live on Facebook, and a “manifesto” denouncing immigrants as “invaders” was also posted online via links to related social media accounts.
The bodies of the victims had not yet been released to families because investigations were ongoing, but police were working as quickly as they could to do that, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said at a media conference in Wellington.
A candlelit prayer is held outside the State Library of Victoria in Australia, for victims killed in the mosque shootings in news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new Zealand, March 17, 2019 /VCG Photo
Bush said the body of the 50th victim was found at the Al Noor mosque, where more than 40 people died after a gunman entered and shot randomly at people with a semi-automatic rifle with high-capacity magazines, before traveling to a second mosque.
Bush said there were also 50 people injured. Thirty-six were being treated in Christchurch Hospital, with two remaining in critical condition, and one child was at a dedicated children's hospital.
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