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He then heard dozens of shots and saw people fleeing the building. Len Peneha, who lives next to the mosque, told the AP that he saw a man dressed in black military-type gear enter the building.

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. 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 mosque spraying terrified worshippers with bullets again and again, sometimes re-firing at people he has already cut down. The AP has a description of the 17-minute video:Ī video that was apparently livestreamed by the shooter shows the attack in horrifying detail. The attack was then broadcast on Facebook Live, possibly from a camera attached to the shooter’s helmet. A short time earlier, someone appearing to be the shooter posted links to a white supremacist manifesto on Twitter and the forum 8chan, along with a link to his Facebook page. The attack on Al Noor mosque began at about 1:45 p.m., where people were gathered for Friday prayers. New Zealand police said 41 people were killed at Al Noor Mosque, which is in the center of the city, and then seven more were fatally shot about three miles away at a mosque in Linwood, a suburb about three miles away. Three other people, two men and a woman, are in custody and police are investigating their involvement in the attack.

Police have defused two explosive devices.

An Australian suspect has been charged with murder. Police say they also found two explosive devices attached to a vehicle they stopped.

It appears to be a carefully planned racist attack. An ambulance carries wounded person to the hospital after gunmen attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.Īt least 49 people are dead and dozens are injured after a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday morning.

Christchurch shooting full live stream video