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Terrorist's online history gives clues to preventing future atrocities
14 Mar 2024Analysis - Looking at the terrorists online and offline activities can give a more complete picture of the path to his attack, researchers say.
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Prince William pays tribute to victims of Christchurch mosque attacks
16 Mar 2024NZ's Muslim community "responded to this horrific event with such courage and fortitude", the Prince of Wales says.
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Govt falling short on attack anniversary - Islamic council
15 Mar 2024The government has largely failed in meeting its promise to make Aotearoa safer for Muslims, the Islamic Women's Council says.
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'No new guns' added to NZ, Luxon says on anniversary of attack
15 Mar 2024The prime minister spoke on the mosque attack anniversary, and defended the government's plan to rewrite the Arms Act.
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'It has made me fearless': Mosque attack survivors find purpose five years on
15 Mar 2024For many, the memory is hard to erase, but some say it has driven them to live a more meaningful life. Audio
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'Let's not forget trauma is ongoing': Muslims mark 5th anniversary of terror attacks
15 Mar 2024Canterbury's Muslim community will on Friday gather to commemorate the Christchurch mosque shootings.
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Terrorist discussed mosque attacks a year earlier - new research
21 Feb 2024Analysis - Up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified.
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Islamic group urges non-politicisation of mosque attack inquiry
9 Jan 2024The coronial inquiry into the 2019 Christchurch terror attack is set to deal with more contentious issues, but an Islamic group says it should not be politicised.
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Understanding of terror attack transitioning from 'darkness to light'
15 Dec 2023Questions that families of the 51 shaheed killed in the Christchurch terror attack have held for four years have finally been answered, an inquest has heard on its final day.
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'Noise, confusion': Paramedics need realistic training for major incidents like terror attack - expert
15 Dec 2023Intense and realistic multi-agency training is needed to help prepare paramedics for major incidents like the Christchurch terror attack, an inquest has heard.
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Confusion, delays in mass casualty incidents not uncommon, expert says
15 Dec 2023A US emergency medicine expert has praised first responders for their actions on 15 March 2019, but has highlighted some areas that could be improved for if such an attack ever happened again.
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Survivability of five terror attack victims questioned in court
13 Dec 2023Getting victims of the Christchurch terror attack to hospital sooner would not have necessarily saved their lives, an inquest has heard.
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111 call about terror attack threat 'clearest example of Priority 1 call', expert says
11 Dec 2023Police could have possibly stopped the shooting at a second mosque during the Christchurch terror attack, but a call-taker did not label a 111 call as a priority, an inquest has heard.
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Use of Eagle helicopter could have saved lives during terror attack, inquest hears
8 Dec 2023A senior sergeant who responded to Linwood Islamic Centre during the Christchurch terror attack said lives could have been saved if the police Eagle helicopter was available, an inquest has heard.
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New radio network will help with multi-agency communication, inquest hears
6 Dec 2023Poor communication between police and paramedics has emerged as a key issue in the inquest into the murder of 51 worshippers at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre on 15 March 2019.
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Wife of terror attack victim forced to leave dying husband
5 Dec 2023Saira Patel told the Christchurch terror attack inquest that not being with her husband in his final moments still distresses her to this day.
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Christchurch terror attack inquest: Chaotic St John leadership call played in court
4 Dec 2023The call shows St John still believed only four or five people had been injured more than 20 minutes after first shooting began.
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St John ill-equipped to deal with Christchurch terror attack - expert
1 Dec 2023A counter-terrorism expert says St John needed to have a plan and training for a terror attack because "you don't learn to dance the night of the ball".
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All front-line police should be trained to go to sound of gunfire - American counter-terrorism expert
30 Nov 2023All front-line police officers should be trained to enter a scene with an active armed offender, an American expert in counter-terrorism has told the mosque attack inquest.
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'I am sorry': St John dispatcher apologises for mistake during terror attack response
29 Nov 2023Armed Offenders Squad members rushed to Christchurch Hospital's ED in the middle of the terror attack response after a false report by a St John staffer that a shooting was taking place there.
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'Absolute despair': AOS desperate for St John assistance at scene of terror attack
28 Nov 2023A senior police tactical operator told the inquest he contemplated going to St John himself to ask them to have paramedics attend Al Noor Mosque.
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Police communications chief grilled on early warning, ambulance response to mosque attacks
27 Nov 2023A senior police officer denies there was a breakdown of communication between police and ambulance staff on the day of the mosque attacks.
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'Nothing comparable' to scene inside Linwood mosque, doctor tells inquest
27 Nov 2023The scene at the Linwood Islamic Centre following the Christchurch terror attacks was unlike anything he had been confronted by before, a community doctor who rushed to help wounded worshippers says.
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'Keep Christchurch safe': Mission for police on day of terror attack revealed
16 Nov 2023Dramatic recordings of police radio communications as the mosque attacks unfolded capture officers scrambling to respond have been played in the inquest into the shootings.
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