WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the massacre of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will look into what roles semi-automatic guns, social media, and intelligence agencies had preceding the attacks. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday it would hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry, the country’s highest form of investigation. “In short, the inquiry will look at what could have or should have been done to prevent the attack,” Ardern said. Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder for the March 15 attacks. “There will be a focus on whether our intelligence community was concentrating its resources appropriately and whether there were any reports that could, or should, have alerted them to this attack,” Ardern said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 25, 2019 04:07 UTC