Attacker Shot Dead After New Zealand Supermarket Rampage

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - An attacker inspired by the Islamic State group stabbed six people at a New Zealand supermarket on Friday before police who had the man under surveillance shot him dead, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

Ardern said the man, a Sri Lankan national who arrived in New Zealand in 2011 and was on a terror watchlist, entered a shopping mall in suburban Auckland, seized a knife from a display and went on a stabbing rampage. She said six people were wounded, three critically, before police who were monitoring him opened fire within 60 seconds of the attack starting. "What happened today was despicable, it was hateful, it was wrong," she said, adding it was not representative of any faith or community.