Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday.
CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON - The death toll in the New Zealand mosque shootings rose to 50 on Sunday after police found another victim at one of the mosques, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said bodies of those killed would begin to be released to families for burial.
Footage of the attack on one of the mosques was broadcast live on Facebook, and a "manifesto" denouncing immigrants as "invaders" was also posted online via links to related social media accounts. Aziz, originally from Afghanistan, said he picked up one of the gunman's discarded weapons and threatened the man, who drove off."Those two police officers acted with absolute courage," Bush said. "They have prevented further deaths and risked their own lives to do so."
Greg Robertson, head of surgery at Christchurch Hospital said staff were used to seeing gunshot wounds and severe injuries, but the scale and nature of the attacks was different. The majority of victims were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia and Afghanistan.FACEBOOK, GUNS
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