New Zealand Pays Tribute To Mosque Shooting Victims

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to hold Cabinet meeting on gun laws today.

New Zealanders flocked to pay tribute on Sunday to the 50 worshippers slain in a twin mosque attack, as families clamoured for the return of their dead.

Coroners said they hoped to let grieving relatives fulfil Islamic burial customs soon, but insisted they had to move carefully through their investigation into the horrific multiple murder.

As New Zealand grappled to come to terms with the slaughter — the worst attack on Muslims in a Western country — tales of heroism, suffering and incredible grace began to emerge.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her office and some 30 other officials had received attacker Brenton Tarrant’s lengthy, meandering “manifesto” by email about nine minutes before the attack. “It did not include a location, it did not include specific details,” she said, adding that it was sent to security services within two minutes of receipt.

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