June 23 () –
At least four people have been injured this Thursday in a stab attack in the New Zealand city of Auckland, located on the North Island, in what the Police have described as an “isolated” incident, without the details being known at the moment. attacker’s motives.
Waitemata District Commander Naila Hassan has indicated that the assailant, who is hospitalized after being injured, was intercepted by several passers-by, before adding that these people prevented the attack from being “much worse”.
Thus, it has detailed that the attacker, who has not been identified, stabbed four people before being intercepted by a person with a crutch. “It was an isolated incident. The assailant was on foot. He started at Murray Bay and continued walking to Maitangi Bay,” he said.
“Several people followed him and finally one of them intervened. It could have been much worse and that is why we must recognize the courage of these people who intervened to put an end to this situation,” Hassan argued, according to the newspaper ‘The New Zealand Herald’.
Finally, he pointed out that the attacker was carrying “a fairly large knife” and stressed that at the moment there are no indications that point to a hate crime, although at the moment there are no more details. Hassan stressed that the attacker will be charged and added that “there are no indications that (the attack) could have been prevented.”
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