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May 11, 2021
WELLINGTON (AFP) – A knife-wielding attacker stabbed four people in a New Zealand supermarket yesterday, critically injuring three, in a rampage authorities said was “random” and not terror related.
Police said the attack – highly unusual in the normally peaceful South Pacific nation – occurred at a Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin at 2.30pm and a man had been taken into custody. Witnesses told local media a man carrying two knives stabbed staff in the supermarket and bystanders who tried to stop him were also injured.
The most recent mass-casualty attack in New Zealand was the Christchurch mosques shootings in March 2019, when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers and severely injured another 40.