Speaking on Saturday, Ms Ardern said none of those arrested had a criminal history or were on a watchlist. One man was arrested on firearms offences but later released after it emerged he was trying to help police. The two others arrested on firearms offences are still being investigated. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said a man in his late 20s had been charged with murder and will appear in court on Saturday. Two men and a woman were in custody, while a car was found with two IEDS (improvised explosive devices), which had been neutralised. It is the worst mass shooting in the country's history, with almost four times the death toll from the last large-scale attack in 1990. In an earlier briefing, she had described the shootings as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". Speaking the morning after Friday's attack, in which at least one gunman launched an attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, Ms Ardern confirmed the suspect had a licence to own a firearm when the attacks took place.
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