NZ’s Sri Lankan community will always be an integral part of Kiwi society - NZ

In the wake of a knife attack at a supermarket in Auckland by a Sri Lankan national, the New Zealand High Commission in Colombo said that ‘New Zealand’s Sri Lankan community is, and will always be, an integral and treasured part of Kiwi society’.

New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a “violent extremist” who was known to authorities, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people at a West Auckland supermarket.

Issuing a statement, the high commission also stated;

“The New Zealand High Commission in Colombo acknowledges, with sadness, the terrorist attack carried out in Auckland today. Our thoughts are with those injured in, or otherwise affected by, the attacks at this very difficult time.

As Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stated, the perpetrator alone bears responsibility for these acts. The attack was carried out by an individual, not a faith, ethnicity or culture.”