At a commercial facility in New Zealand, a man with a knife stabbed multiple people and injured six on the 3rd.
The man was shot dead by police on the spot, but Prime Minister Ardan announced that it was a terrorist incident by a man from Sri Lanka who was influenced by the militant group IS = Islamic State.
On the afternoon of the 3rd, a man stabbed several people with a knife and injured six at a shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.
The man was shot dead by the police on the spot.
Of the six injured, three are seriously injured.
Following the incident, Prime Minister Ardan announced at a press conference that it was a terrorist attack by a man from Sri Lanka who was influenced by the ideas of the extremist organization IS.
The man moved to New Zealand 10 years ago and has been monitored by security officials for five years, saying that radical thoughts could harm society.
Prime Minister Ardan accused him of being "sneaky and hateful."
According to the Consul General of Japan in Auckland, there is no information that the Japanese have been involved in the incident so far.
In New Zealand, an Australian man with a radical white supremacist ideology has attacked two mosques, killing 51 people in a terrorist attack.