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Caption:Christchurch’s Linwood Islamic Centre (file photo).Photo credit:RNZ / Eden Fusitu’aSenior Sergeant Roy Appley.The Press / Iain McGregor
Al Noor Mosque
Senior Sergeant Roy Appley was in charge of the police communications centre as the March 15 attacks unfolded.
141123 CHRIS SKELTON Former Superintendent John Price was the overall commander of the police response to the terror attacks on March 15, 2019.
A man man walks past flowers and tributes displayed in memory of the twin mosque massacre victims along the road outside the Linwood mosque (back C) in Christchurch on March 25, 2019. The slaughter of 50 people at Friday prayers in two Christchurch mosques on March 15 shocked the normally laid-back country and prompted global horror, heightened by the gunman’s cold-blooded livestreaming of the massacre. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)
A man man walks past flowers and tributes displayed in memory of the twin mosque massacre victims along the road outside the Linwood mosque (back C) in Christchurch on March 25, 2019. The slaughter of 50 people at Friday prayers in two Christchurch mosques on March 15 shocked the normally laid-back country and prompted global horror, heightened by the gunman’s cold-blooded livestreaming of the massacre. (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)
The stranded ute in the Waimakariri River.
RNZ/Reece Baker
Car written off in flood waters this morning waiting to be towed.
Mount Maunganui Beach on 13 April 2026 following cyclone Vaianu.
The Beehive
Jeremy Clarkson is at the Formula 1 Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Great Britain at the Silverstone Circuit in Towcester, England, on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Jon Hobley | MI News/NurPhoto) (Photo by MI News / NurPhoto via AFP)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 27: Tolutau Koula of the Blues is tackled by Kalyn Ponga of the Maroons during game one of the 2026 Men’s State of Origin series between New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons at Accor Stadium on May 27, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
The photo of Dame Jools Topp is used with permission from the 2013 Pink Ribbon Calendar Girls’ project. Body artist was Sofia Bue.