Attack in New Zealand, seven people injured

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 04 - Seven people were stabbed in the terrorist attack that took place yesterday in a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand.

Prime Minister JacindaArdern said at a press conference stating that five of the injured were hospitalized and three of these are in critical conditions.

    The identity of the terrorist, a 32-year-old man from SriLanka who was killed by police after the attack, remains unknown but it is revealed that he had been in New Zealand for 10 years and had been known to police for five years when he radicalized. In 2018 he was arrested for possession of a knife and on suspicion that he was planning an attack as a "lone wolf". While in prison, he was further charged with assaulting officers, but after three years, in July, he was released. "All avenues had been explored to keep him in prison," Ardern said, announcing a tightening of the TerrorismSuppression Act later this month. (HANDLE).