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She pronounced it "one of New Zealand's darkest days." "It is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, noting that many of the victims could be migrants or refugees.

It was by far the deadliest shooting in modern New Zealand history. Two other armed suspects were taken into custody while police tried to determine what role, if any, they played in the cold-blooded attack that stunned New Zealand, a country so peaceful that police officers rarely carry guns. The judge said "it was reasonable to assume" more such charges would follow. Brenton Harrison Tarrant appeared in court Saturday morning amid strict security and showed no emotion when the judge read him one murder charge. One man was arrested and charged with murder. The video then cuts out.CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - At least 49 people were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday - most if not all of them gunned down by an immigrant-hating white supremacist who apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live video of the slaughter on Facebook. The singer bellows, "I am the god of hellfire!" and the gunman drives away. After walking back outside and shooting a woman there, he gets back in his car, where the song "Fire" by English rock band "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" can be heard blasting from the speakers. The gunman then walks back into the mosque, where there are at least two dozen people lying on the ground. A still image taken from video circulated on social media, apparently taken by a gunman and posted online live as the attack unfolded, shows him entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019. Children's screams can be heard in the distance as he returns to his car to get another rifle.

He then walks outside to the street, where he shoots at people on the sidewalk.

The gunman spends more than two minutes inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch, spraying terrified worshippers with bullets again and again, sometimes re-firing at people he has already cut down. New Zealand shooting: Australian man charged with murder 04:21Ĭhristchurch, New Zealand - Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people in what the prime minister said could "only be described as a terrorist attack." Authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack.Ī video that was apparently livestreamed by the shooter, identified by sources to CBS News as Australian national Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, shows the attack in horrifying detail.