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He soon left the mosque and fired at people outside. The gunman fired indiscriminately at worshippers in the prayer hall from medium range and shot many of his victims several times. During the attack, a worshipper, Naeem Rashid, charged at him and was shot he later died from his injuries. A strobe-light attached to one of his weapons was used to disorient victims. He killed three people near the entrance and dozens more inside a prayer hall. The gunman spent several minutes inside the mosque, shooting attendees indiscriminately. As he approached the front entrance to the mosque, the gunman appeared to be greeted by one of the worshippers, who said 'Hello, brother' and was the first victim to be killed in the attacks.

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One witness said the gunman continued to play 'military music' from a portable speaker inside the mosque. Moments before the shooting, he played several songs including 'The British Grenadiers', a traditional British military marching song, and 'Serbia Strong', a Serb nationalist song celebrating Radovan Karadžić, who was found guilty of genocide against Bosnian Muslims. The gunman live-streamed the first 17 minutes of this attack on Facebook Live, starting with the drive to the mosque and ending with the drive away. A neighbour of the mosque told reporters he saw the gunman flee and drop what appeared to be a firearm in the driveway. Between three hundred and five hundred people may have been inside the mosque attending Friday Prayer at the time of the shooting. Police received the first emergency call at 1:41 pm. The gunman began shooting worshippers at the Al Noor Mosque, Riccarton, at around 1:40 pm. The Linwood Islamic Centre opened in early 2018. The Al Noor Mosque opened in 1985 it was the first mosque in the South Island. Islam is practised by over 46,000 New Zealanders (1.2% of the population), 3,000 of them in Christchurch and the wider Canterbury region. Australia, where the alleged gunman was from, has also seen a recent increase in xenophobia, racism, and Islamophobia. The sociologist Paul Spoonley has called Christchurch a hotbed for white supremacists and the extreme nationalist movement, a suggestion rejected by Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee.

While the country has rarely been associated with the extreme right, experts have suggested that far-right extremism has been growing in New Zealand in recent years. Prior to that, the deadliest public mass shooting was the 1990 Aramoana massacre, in which 13 people died. These attacks were the first mass shooting in the country since the Raurimu massacre in 1997. New Zealand has often been considered a safe country, and has a relatively low level of homicide.

The government established a royal commission of inquiry into its security agencies in the wake of the attacks, which are the deadliest mass shootings in modern New Zealand history. Politicians and world leaders condemned the attacks, and Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern described it as 'one of New Zealand's darkest days'. The attacks have been linked to an increase in white supremacism and alt-right extremism globally observed since the mid-2010s.

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He pleaded not guilty to all charges, with the trial expected to start in May 2020. A 28-year-old Australian man, described in media reports as a white supremacist and part of the alt-right, was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorism. The attacks killed 51 people and 49 people were injured. The gunman live-streamed the first attack on Facebook Live. The attacks began at the Al Noor Mosque in the suburb of Riccarton at 1:40 pm and continued at the Linwood Islamic Centre at about 1:55 pm. The Christchurch mosque shootings were two consecutive terrorist attacks at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, during Friday Prayer on 15 March 2019.

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