Forty-nine people have been killed and 48 injured after two mass shootings at Christchurch mosques on Friday.
Here are photos from yesterday as the tragedy unfolded.
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
