Christchurch mosque attacks ‘unpreventable,’ inquiry finds
09 December 2020 |
1:53 pm
The New Zealand Royal Commission of Inquiry has detailed a host of failings ahead of the 2019 terror attacks on two mosques. But it says authorities could not have done anything to prevent the massacre.
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