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Jacinda Ardern has revealed further details on how the Government tried to stop the IS-inspired man who carried out Friday's terror attack in a west Auckland supermarket.
The man, a Sri Lankan national, was shot by police after stabbing six people inside the LynnMall Countdown. He died at the scene.
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The Government has quietly made it more difficult to get a mask exemption card, with Kiwis now required to apply through a disability organisation amid concerns they were being misused.
Under all COVID-19 alert levels, masks are required to be worn in certain settings. But there are exceptions - children under the age of 12 don't have to wear a mask, nor those with illnesses, conditions or disabilities that make the wearing of one unsuitable.
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The Crown is seeking an urgent lifting of the suppression orders surrounding the terrorist who stabbed six people in Countdown in LynnMall on Friday shortly after 2pm.
The man, who can't be named due to those suppression orders, was shot dead by police during the attack.
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Read more: LynnMall terror attack, Crown trying to lift suppression orders, 3 victims still critical
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A witness has described the harrowing moment a man began a frenzied, Islamic State-inspired knife attack in west Auckland.
Six people were injured at New Lynn Countdown on Friday afternoon, including three critically, after a Sri Lankan national apparently took a knife off one of the shelves and began stabbing people, before being shot dead by police just a minute later.
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Kiwis are reacting in shock after a lone man carried out a terrorist attack in Auckland on Friday afternoon.
The terror attack unfolded just after 2:40pm, when the man entered Countdown LynnMall in the suburb of New Lynn and grabbed a knife - before stabbing multiple people. Within minutes, he was shot dead by intelligence teams who were closely following him.
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Read more: Auckland terror attack: New Zealand reacts in shock to New Lynn stabbing
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It's too soon to pop the bubbly but a COVID-modeller says we're passing the peak of this outbreak.
And the good news doesn't stop there if we stay the course of this lockdown data shows we could even be in single digits by the end of next week.
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Read more: COVID modeller says NZ could see single-digit new cases next week if we stick to rules
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The Crown previously tried to use anti-terror laws against the Isis sympathiser shot dead by police following a knife attack at a West Auckland supermarket – but it was turned down by the courts.
The man was facing charges of possessing a hunting knife and possessing objectionable publications that included Isis videos of extreme violence, and the Crown sought to also have him charged under the Terror Suppression Act, claiming he was planning a “knife attack”.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300399197/why-supermarket-terror-attacker-wasnt-charged-under-terror-laws-despite-being-on-watchlist
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The Prime Minister has confirmed the man being Friday’s terrorist attack in Auckland, who was shot dead by police after stabbing six people in a supermarket, was a violent extremist known to police.
Witnesses described scenes of mass hysteria as several people were attacked before the assailant was shot during the incident at Countdown, Lynn Mall, New Lynn, on Friday afternoon.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300399168/prime-minister-says-auckland-knife-terrorist-was-violent-extremist-under-heavy-surveillance
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Well isn't this article from 2011 interesting...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5269049/Key-accused-of-scaremongering
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