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A man inspired by ISIS has carried out a terrorist attack at a supermarket in Auckland on Friday afternoon, stabbing six people before being shot and killed by police.

โ€œThis was a violent attack. It was senseless, and I am so sorry it happened,โ€ New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

The attack took place at 2.40 p.m. at a Countdown supermarket at New Lynn, a southwest suburb of Auckland, and was carried out byย a Sri Lankan national who was a โ€œknown threatโ€ to New Zealand, Ardern said.

Ardern said the man was under constant monitoring because of his radical ideology, and that it was the surveillance team and special tactics group that shot and killed him, within the space of about 60 seconds of the attack starting.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said the man grabbed a knife from within the store, and โ€œwhen the commotion started,โ€ two officers engaged him, shooting him when he approached them with the knife.

โ€œI acknowledge this situation raises questions about whether police could have done more, whether police could have intervened more quickly,โ€ Coster said.ย โ€œIโ€™m satisfied based on the information available to me that the staff involved did not only what we expect they would do in this situation, but did it with great courage.โ€

Details on why the attacker is known to the countryโ€™s security agencies are the subject of a suppression order by the court, Ardern said.

But she revealed that the โ€œviolent extremistโ€ arrived in the country in 2011 and was put on a national security watch list from 2016.

โ€œI can tell you that agencies were using every single possible means available to them to protect the New Zealand public from this individual. Every single possible means,โ€ she said.

โ€œIt was senseless, and Iโ€™m so sorry that happened.โ€

Newshubย reportedย thatย Ardern and Coster were forced to explain how the man, who was so closely monitored, was able to carry out an attack.

Byย Caden Pearson

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