Six people were injured in a knife attack

New Zealand hit by attack again

PHOTO/Alex Burton/New Zealand Herald vía AP - Police and ambulance personnel attend a scene outside a supermarket in Auckland, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021

Updated: 03/09/21

A suburb of New Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand, has been the scene of a terrorist attack that has left six victims. In this way, the New Zealand nation has once again been damaged by a radical action like the last one that took place more than two years ago in Christchurch.

New Zealand Police intervened quickly and shot and killed a man who allegedly injured six people with a knife in a supermarket in Auckland's New Lynn, official sources confirmed. The suspect, according to police reports, is a Sri Lankan national who arrived in New Zealand in 2011. The attacker had been on police files for five years as a suspected supporter of Daesh.

Un oficial de Policía se encuentra fuera de un supermercado de Auckland, el viernes 3 de septiembre de 2021. Las autoridades neozelandesas dijeron el viernes que dispararon y mataron a un violento extremista después de que entrara en un supermercado y apuñalara e hiriera a varios compradores

According to Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister, what happened on Friday is a "terrorist attack by a violent extremist". She said the man was shot dead a minute after the attack began. Ardern also said that the attack is rooted in a "violent, Daesh-inspired ideology".

Andrew Coster, New Zealand's police chief, explained that the authorities were confident that the attacker had acted alone, which would make him what is known as a "lone wolf".

El comisionado de la Policía de Nueva Zelanda, Andrew Coster, se dirige a una conferencia de prensa después de un incidente en un supermercado, en el Parlamento en Wellington, Nueva Zelanda, el viernes 3 de septiembre de 2021

"He was someone known to our national security agencies and was a cause for concern. He was being constantly monitored. There are very few who fall into this category," explained Ardern, who described the alleged perpetrator as a "lone wolf" follower of Daesh.

"What happened today was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who took hold of an ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community," Ardern said.

La primera ministra Jacinda Ardern describió el incidente como un ataque terrorista

The New Zealand prime minister explained at a press conference that the 32-year-old alleged terrorist "obviously supported the ideology of Islamic State" and indicated that he had migrated from Sri Lanka to New Zealand ten years ago and became a person of interest in 2016 because of his extremist leanings. Jacinda Ardern also said that six people were injured in the attack, three of whom are in critical condition, as reported by the EFE news agency.

Mapa de Nueva Zelanda en el que se localiza Auckland, donde la Policía mató a tiros a un hombre que hirió a seis personas en un ataque en un supermercado el 3 de septiembre

Last June, the New Zealand Police reported that two plans to carry out attacks in the country in 2019 had been dismantled, one before and the other after the supremacist attack perpetrated on 15 March of that year against two mosques in the city of Christchurch, which left 51 people dead.