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People stabbed at supermarket in Dunedin Monday, May 10, 2021 RNZ
The stabbing of four people this afternoon is believed to be a random attack. The alleged offender has been taken to hospital with injuries, and has not yet been charged.
Police district commander Paul Basham said they received the first of many calls about the attack just before 2.30pm.
He said there were four victims, and a man who had been detained by members of the public before police arrived.
The man had a minor injury and would appear before the courts tomorrow, Basham said. Police were satisfied they had the person responsible in custody, he said.
(Reuters) - Four people were stabbed on Monday in a supermarket in Dunedin on New Zealand s South Island, police said after detaining the man believed to have been responsible.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the incident did not appear to be a terror-related attack, for which authorities have been on alert since 2019, when a white supremacist gunman killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch. There is nothing to suggest, from the police s perspective, that this is what they would define as a domestic terror event, Ardern told reporters.
Police said they had yet to formally interview or charge the alleged offender and would investigate the motive for the assault at the Countdown supermarket.
Dunedin supermarket stabbing: One person in custody, three critically injured
10 May, 2021 05:20 AM
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Police have praised the bravery of shoppers who intervened to confront a man who had stabbed several people in a random attack at a Dunedin supermarket.
Police have praised the bravery of shoppers who intervened to confront a man who had stabbed several people in a random attack at a Dunedin supermarket.
Otago Daily Times
Police have praised the bravery of shoppers who intervened to confront a man who had stabbed several people in a random attack at a Dunedin supermarket.
Witnesses at the scene of the multiple stabbing say there was chaos as the attack unfolded.