'Muslims have been in New Zealand for over 100 years. Nothing like that has ever happened,' a New Zealand Islamic leader said.
New Zealand's deadliest peacetime incident of violence since 1900 occurred in November 1990 in Aramoana, a tiny coastal settlement northeast of Dunedin. The perpetrator, identified as David Malcolm Gray, 33, killed 13 people before he was killed by police.
He then killed two of his neighbor's daughters and set their house on fire before opening fire indiscriminately in the neighborhood, police said. All told, Gray shot or burned 13 people to death, including a police sergeant. No other similar incident on record has claimed more than eight lives in the the nation's history.
The shootings Friday are also believed to have been the first multiple killings involving houses of worship in the country's history. Ardern called the attacks"an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence."Posts on social media and the fringe message board 8chan that appeared to indicate prior knowledge of Friday's shootings — not yet confirmed by authorities as being connected — featured anti-Muslim rhetoric and extremist political sentiments.
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