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The 2007 New Zealand police raids were a series of armed police raids conducted on 15 and 16 October 2007, in response to alleged paramilitary training camps in the Urewera mountain range near the town of Ruatoki. [ 1][ 2][ 3] About 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group, were involved in the raids ...
Murder of Matt Ratana. Matiu Ratana (3 May 1966 – 25 September 2020) was a New Zealand -born British police sergeant who was shot dead at Croydon police station in London on 25 September 2020. He was nearing retirement having served in the Metropolitan Police for nearly 30 years when he became the first police officer to be fatally shot in ...
Murder of Matthew Hunt. Matthew Dennis Hunt was a New Zealand Police constable who was killed in Massey during a traffic stop on 19 June 2020. Eli Epiha, a 24-year-old man, pleaded guilty to his murder while a 30-year-old woman, Natalie Bracken, was found guilty to being an accessory after the fact. Hunt's death marked the first police fatality ...
Two consecutive mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March 2019.They were committed by a single perpetrator during Friday prayer, first at the Al Noor Mosque in Riccarton, overlooking Hagley Park, at 1:40 p.m., and second, after driving at speed across town, at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 p.m.
Iranian Vice President Mohammad Javad Zarif resigns after 11 days in office, citing disappointment with his progress and the new Cabinet. Science and technology. Water on Mars. Liquid water is confirmed to be present at depths of 10–20 km (6.2–12.4 mi) below the surface of Mars, based on a new analysis of data from NASA's InSight lander.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was born on October 11, 1977 in Bhar Singh Pura, a village in the Phillaur tehsil of the Jalandhar district of Punjab, India into the Nijjar clan of Jatt Sikhs. Nijjar's family had often provided refuge to Sikh militants in the midst of the Punjab insurgency, Nijjar claimed that he was inspired to join the Sikh militant ...
The New Zealand Police ( Māori: Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa) [ n 2] is the national police service and principal law enforcement agency of New Zealand, responsible for preventing crime, enhancing public safety, bringing offenders to justice, and maintaining public order. With over 15,000 personnel, [ 7] it is the largest law enforcement agency ...
Dylann Storm Roof [1] (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and mass murderer who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting. [2] [3] During a Bible study on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney, and ...