{"id":2654888,"date":"2025-09-27T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2654888\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:21:32","slug":"new-zealand-police-detain-four-after-mosque-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2654888\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand police detain four after mosque shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"Video grab of police officers speaking to each other after reports that several shots had been fired at a mosque, in central Christchurch\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police officers are seen after reports that several shots had been fired at a mosque, in central Christchurch, New Zealand March 15, 2019, in this still image taken from video.  TVNZ\/via REUTERS TV   <\/p>\n<p>WELLINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; New Zealand police detained four people on Friday after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four are in custody. Three are men and one is a woman,&#8221; New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush told reporters in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a few reports of IEDs strapped to vehicles which we were able to secure,&#8221; he said, referring to improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was not possible to assume that the attack was isolated to Christchurch, saying: &#8220;At this point in time we should never make assumptions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand media have reported that between nine and 27 people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Tom Westbrook<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers are seen after reports that several shots had been fired at a mosque, in central Christchurch,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2654889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785172],"tags":[14869,3391,13569,762828,762681,762734,62869,771470,767705,762694,169889,762688,6639,238274,762689,89874,219734,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-2654888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-bd","11":"tag-clj","12":"tag-cwp","13":"tag-europ","14":"tag-gb","15":"tag-islm","16":"tag-kdnp","17":"tag-meast","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news1","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-pol","22":"tag-secur","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-vio","25":"tag-231"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/115277652567583878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}