{"id":400069,"date":"2019-03-18T04:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-toll-in-mosque-shootings-rises-to-49-police\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T04:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T03:33:20","slug":"death-toll-in-mosque-shootings-rises-to-49-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-toll-in-mosque-shootings-rises-to-49-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in mosque shootings rises to 49 \u2013 police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/453875-new-zealand-death-toll\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police Commissioner Mike Bush has confirmed that the death toll in the Christchurch mosque attacks has risen to 49 people. A male in his 20s has been charged with murder and will appear in court tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c22EzAXX3L4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bush confirmed that a further 20 people were injured in what is now the worst ever mass shooting in New Zealand history. Some 40 people were taken to hospital but it was not targeted in the attack, contrary to rumors online.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack,\u201d<\/em> New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. In the aftermath of the attacks, New Zealand has been placed on its highest security threat level according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What has happened in Christchurch is an extraordinary act of unprecedented violence. It has no place in New Zealand. Many of those affected will be members of our migrant communities \u2013 New Zealand is their home \u2013 they are us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacinda Ardern (@jacindaardern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacindaardern\/status\/1106397870628847617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Four people were taken into custody, three men and one woman, in connection with the attack but only one has been charged with murder so far. It has been confirmed that all four held extremist views but were not on any police watchlists.<\/p>\n<p>One of the four has already been charged with murder and will appear in court tomorrow but Police Commissioner Bush declined to confirm the name of the suspect prior to the court hearing. The extent of the other three suspects\u2019 involvement has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if police were looking for any other persons of interest related to the case, Bush responded that \u201cwe never assume that there aren\u2019t other people involved\u201d but that \u201cat this point we are not looking for any other persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed that, while there were two Improvised Explosive Devices found on one of the perpetrator\u2019s vehicles (one of which was deactivated, the other is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/new-zealand-terror-attack-death-toll-in-mosque-shootings-rises-to-49-police.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTMarch 15, 2019 Police Commissioner Mike Bush has confirmed that the death toll in the Christchurch mosque attacks has risen to 49 people. A male in his 20s has been charged with murder and will appear in court tomorrow. Bush confirmed that a further 20 people were injured in what is now the worst ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}