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Anna Rankin in Auckland

Auckland shooting revives debate over gun control in New Zealand

An armed police officer walks on patrol in a cordoned downtown area on 20 July 2023
Two men were killed after a shooting at a building site in Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday. Photograph: Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images

A fatal shooting in New Zealand has revived debate about the country’s gun laws, after two men were killed and 10 others injured in an attack in Auckland.

On Friday, police said the men killed were aged in their forties and worked at the construction site where the shooting took place. The gunman was identified as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, who also worked at the site and died at the scene.

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