Police have flooded a Sommerville St. Photo: Tim MillerPart of a cordoned off Dunedin street has now been evacuated after a Christchurch mosque shooter said in a manifesto published on social media earlier today that he originally planned to target Dunedin's Al Huda Mosque. Police outside an address in Somerville St Dunedin. Meanwhile, police were earlier this afternoon seen inspecting a property in Somerville St, Andersons Bay, and after 5pm part of the street was cordoned off. An armed police officer guards the Al Huda Mosque in Dunedin this afternoon following the shootings in Christchurch. Al Huda Mosque was earlier today guarded by armed offenders squad members, but they were no longer there as of just after 5.20pm.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 15, 2019 04:18 UTC