Two dead and multiple injured in Auckland shooting

Two individuals have been killed and a number of have been injured in a Thursday morning taking pictures in Auckland, New Zealand, in keeping with officers.

“At this stage we are able to verify two individuals have died,” Auckland police stated in a press release, CNN reviews. “The male offender can also be deceased.”

The taking pictures came about on Thursday at a constructing web site within the Auckland metropolis centre on decrease Queen Road, in keeping with police.

“The offender has moved by way of the constructing web site and continued to discharge his firearm. Upon reaching the higher ranges of the constructing, the male has contained himself throughout the elevator shaft and our employees have tried to have interaction with him,” police stated in a press release, The Guardian reviews.

“Additional photographs have been fired from the male and he was situated deceased a short while later.”

The taking pictures came about on the identical day because the Girls’s World Cup kicks off within the nation.

The match will proceed as deliberate, in keeping with New Zealand sports activities minister Grant Robertson.

“Aucklanders and people watching all over the world might be assured that the police have neutralised the menace and that they aren’t searching for anyone else in relation to the incident,” prime minister Chris Hipkins stated at a press convention on Thursday.

He added that in keeping with police data at this stage, the gunman was armed with a pump-action shotgun, and that officers assume there was “was no political or ideological motive for the taking pictures.”

A bystander informed 1 Information he was contained in the constructing the place the taking pictures came about and hid inside an workplace.

“We simply heard an enormous gunshot, after which one of many guys walked exterior the workplace and got here working again in,” the person stated.

“We ran to the again of the constructing the place I noticed a bloody onerous hat. We may see the man strolling round along with his gun.”

Groups enjoying within the match, the place New Zealand will face Norway.

“New Zealand Soccer are shocked by the incident in Auckland CBD this morning,” the workforce wrote on social media. “We are able to verify that all the Soccer Ferns workforce and employees are protected however we won’t be able to remark additional whereas particulars are nonetheless rising.”

“Please check with New Zealand Police for additional data. Preparations for the sport tonight at Eden Park will proceed as deliberate.”