2021 Auckland supermarket stabbing
Terrorist attack in Auckland, New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 3 September 2021 at 14:40 NZST, eight people were injured in a mass stabbing at the LynnMall Countdown supermarket in New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand. The attacker, Ahamed Samsudeen, was being followed by police officers, who intervened during the attack and shot and killed him after he charged the officers.[3][4] He was pronounced dead at the scene.[5] The incident was treated as terrorism[2] and was "ISIS-inspired" according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.[6] It was the second stabbing in less than four months to occur at a Countdown supermarket, the first being in Dunedin, and the first terrorist attack in New Zealand since the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019.
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Part of Terrorism in New Zealand | |
Location | New Lynn, West Auckland, New Zealand |
Coordinates | 36°54′26.3″S 174°41′3.8″E |
Date | 3 September 2021 (2021-09-03) 14:40 (NZST; UTC+12) |
Target | Shoppers at the supermarket |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
Weapons | Knife |
Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
Injured | 8 |
Perpetrator | Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen[1] |
Motive | Islamic extremism[2] |
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