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Countdown Dunedin supermarket stabbing: Woman shaken after witnessing attack 10 May, 2021 05:00 PM 7 minutes to read Police have praised the bravery of shoppers who intervened to confront a man who had stabbed several people in a "random attack" at a Dunedin supermarket. Police have praised the bravery of shoppers who intervened to confront a man who had stabbed several people in a "random attack" at a Dunedin supermarket. Jenny McDowell was just metres away from the horror unfolding at Countdown when a man who had just stabbed a woman stopped and looked at her. Fearing she might become his n...

10 May 2021 At least four people have been stabbed in a supermarket in Dunedin, New Zealand, in what police currently believe to be a “random attack”. “There is nothing to suggest, from the police’s perspective, that this is what they would define as a domestic terror event,” stressed Jacinda Ardern, the left-liberal prime minister of the British Commonwealth realm, in comments reported by Reuters. Paul Basham, commander of the Southern District, further confirmed that, while the suspect in the “extremely traumatic” stabbing spree was yet to be charged or given a formal intervie...

Article content Four people were stabbed on Monday in a supermarket in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island, police said after detaining the man believed to have been responsible. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the incident did not appear to be a terror-related attack, for which authorities have been on alert since 2019, when a white supremacist gunman killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or 'A RANDOM ATTACK': Four stabbed in New Zealand supermarket Back to video “There is nothing to suggest, ...

Hamish McNeilly/Stuff Earlier, Jenny McDowell told Stuff she heard screams ring out across the aisles while doing her shopping at Countdown Dunedin Central, on Cumberland St, about 2.30pm on Monday. Looking up, thinking people were arguing, she saw someone stab a female employee – before she herself locked eyes with a man wielding a knife. “I just kind of stood there for a second … you’re thinking, is this happening?” McDowell, 39, said. “I thought that I might be next.” Stuff The scene at Countdown Dunedin Central, the morning after four people were stabbed in a frenzied k...

May 11, 2021 WELLINGTON (AFP) – A knife-wielding attacker stabbed four people in a New Zealand supermarket yesterday, critically injuring three, in a rampage authorities said was “random” and not terror related. Police said the attack – highly unusual in the normally peaceful South Pacific nation – occurred at a Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin at 2.30pm and a man had been taken into custody. Witnesses told local media a man carrying two knives stabbed staff in the supermarket and bystanders who tried to stop him were also injured. The most recent mass-casualty attack in New...