Tag: Shooting
Three dead in Auckland CBD shooting, including gunman, police confirm
RNZ News
Three people have been killed in a shooting in Auckland central business district today, including the gunman.
Six people were also wounded, including two...
Tense Goroka town under lockdown after brutal slaying of PNG Ports...
PNG Post-Courier
Goroka town is under lockdown and remains tense as Papua New Guinea police mount a heavy presence following the brutal slaying of the...
Seven-year-old boy shot dead by younger brother, say Tonga police
RNZ Pacific
Tongan police have confirmed the death of a seven-year-old boy after he was shot.
Police report the shooting occurred at the boy's residence at...
PNG opposition leader calls on lawyer MP to resign over shooting...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea opposition leader Belden Namah has called on a member of Parliament, Lohia Boe Samuel, to resign over the accidental fatal...
Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter
Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...
NZ police shooting: Second fugitive captured, murder accused in court
By RNZ News
A woman at the centre of a manhunt after a police shooting in New Zealand yesterday has been arrested in West Auckland.
Police...
West Papuan church leader invited by Indonesian police to ‘clarify’ article
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific's Melanesian affairs correspondent
A West Papuan church leader has been "invited" by Indonesian police to "clarify" an article he wrote...
Fiji man shot dead by NZ police after multiple machete violence...
By Anish Chand
A Fiji man was shot dead by police in the south Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe early today.
Counties Manukau Police District Commander Superintendent...
Christchurch terror shooting: First victims buried, calls for unity
By RNZ News
As the police worked to release victims' bodies to families by tonight, the first were buried this afternoon.
Father and son, 44-year-old Khaled...
Gunman arrested ‘within 21 minutes’ and saved lives, says police chief
By RNZ
Police Commissioner Mike Bush says police knew where the suspect from the Christchurch mosque attacks was going after the New Zealand shootings and...
Christchurch terrorism attacks: NZ’s darkest hour – Friday, March 15, 2019
Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report, profiles the Christchurch atrocity that has outraged and shaken a peaceful South Pacific nation.
Out of the blue:
It was...
Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads
By RNZ
More than 50 New Zealand companies are considering pulling ads from Facebook because it allowed a livestream of the Christchurch massacre last Friday.
Some...
NZ ‘chose us to come here … to die here’, says...
By Katy Gosset of RNZ
A Syrian-born woman whose husband and son were killed in Friday's terror attacks says her family was told New Zealand...
Fiji community shaken with loss of three in Christchurch mosque attacks
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's Fijian community is reeling after three people from Fiji were killed in Friday's mosque attacks in Christchurch.
The...
Christchurch attacks a stark warning of toxic politics that enables hate
ANALYSIS: By Professor Greg Barton
When lives are tragically cut short, it is generally easier to explain the “how” than the “why”. This dark reality...
Keith Locke: How to combat Islamophobia, white supremacy
OPINION: By Keith Locke
It was heartwarming to be part of such a big and diverse crowd in Auckland’s Aotea Square on Saturday standing in...
Sasya Wreksono: We mourn, reflect and face up to NZ’s ‘fragment...
OPINION: By Sasya Wreksono in Auckland
In the 20 years I’ve lived in New Zealand since I was little, I’ve never felt unsafe or been...
Brimob officer dies in Papua shooting exchange with armed group
By Nethy Dharma Somba in Jayapura
First Brigadier Berry Pramana Putra, a member of the National Police’s Mobile Brigade stationed in Timika, Papua, has been...
Plans to end violence, improve human rights in West Papua ‘unravelling’
ANALYSIS: By Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge in Jakarta
Reports about the shooting of an indigenous Papuan by police officers early this month in Deiyai district,...
Constable Jimmy dies in PNG elections ambush – ‘being a cop’s...
By Elizah Palme in Wabag, Papua New Guinea
Duty called for two police officers and other members of Papua New Guinea's Mt Hagen Mobile Squad...
PNG police in firearms refresher training to ward off public allegations
Senior police officers have been given a week's refresher training in the use of firearms following an uproar over the force opening fire on...
Protesting students shot in crackdown over UPNG march
At least one University of Papua New Guinea student was allegedly shot in the back at the main Waigani campus in the capital of...