2021 Auckland supermarket stabbing
| 2021 Auckland supermarket stabbing | |
|---|---|
LynnMall shopping centre in March 2020. The Countdown supermarket can be seen to the right, behind the trees. | |
| Location | New Lynn, West Auckland, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 36°54′26.3″S 174°41′3.8″E / 36.907306°S 174.684389°E |
| Date | 3 September 2021 14:40 (NZST; UTC+12) |
| Target | Shoppers at the supermarket |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 8 |
| Perpetrator | Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen |
| Motive | Islamic extremism |
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On 3 September 2021 at 14:40 NZST, eight people were injured in a mass stabbing at the LynnMall supermarket in New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand. The attacker, Ahamed Samsudeen, was being followed by police officers, who intervened during the attack, shooting and killing him after he charged at them. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident was treated as terrorism and was "ISIS-inspired" according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. It was the second stabbing in less than four months to occur at a Countdown supermarket, the first being in Dunedin, and the first terrorist attack in New Zealand since the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019.