Live: Forty-nine people dead after shootings at mosques in central Christchurch

Armed police patrol outside a mosque in central Christchurch. Credit: AP 2019

Credit: AP 2019

A man reacts as he speaks on a mobile phone outside a mosque in central Christchurch. Credit: AP/Mark Baker

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch. Credit: AP/Mark Baker

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch. Credit: AP /Mark Baker

Azam Ali who was in the Linwood Avenue mosque. Credit: RNZ / Conan Young

Shoaib Gani who was in the Linwood Avenue mosque. Credit: RNZ / Conan Young

Armed police blocked off the road and turned people away. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

Police taping off the street, with people reunited at the edge of the cordon. RNZ / Simon Rogers

Police blocking off roads in Christchurch. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

Police Commissioner Mike Bush giving a media conference about the mosque shootings. Credit: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King

People outside the cordon. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

People being escorted out of the police cordon. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

People being escorted out of the police cordon. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

People being escorted out of the police cordon. Credit: RNZ / Simon Rogers

Credit: RNZ / Conan Young

Credit: RNZ / Conan Young

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at a media conference at Parliament. Credit: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King

Malik Ricks (father), Suki Hickling (mother) Frida Ricks (daughter) and Tahi Ricks who laid flowers and lit candles at the cordon by Linwood mosque this evening. Credit: RNZ / Conan Young

A forensic official works at the Masjid al Noor mosque after the shootings. Credit: AFP

Residents wait near the scene of the shootings. Credit: AFP