The man who stabbed seven people at a New Zealand supermarket has been named as Ahamed Samsudeen. The 32-year-old had been assessed by authorities as such a high risk that he was being monitored by up to 30 police officers in the weeks leading up to the attack. Samsudeen, who had arrived in New Zealand
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Six people have been injured after a “violent extremist” began stabbing people in a New Zealand supermarket. The offender, a Sri Lankan national, cannot be named due to a suppression order currently in place. However, local media reported he is a 32-year-old man who had recently been released from prison. He first came to the
A man, inspired by ISIS ideology, who entered a New Zealand supermarket and stabbed at least six people was a “violent extremist” known to the police, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said. The man was shot and killed by police within 60 seconds of beginning his attack, which wounded at least six people at a
The remnants of Hurricane Ida have killed at least 22 people in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with the storm bringing relentless rain to large parts of the northeastern United States. Here are a selection of photos showing the impact Ida has had since it made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday and later weakened