(Radio NZ) A group of officers who were surveilling LynnMall terror attacker Ahamed Samsudeen say they did not have the right equipment to prevent the attack.
Samsudeen was shot 12 times by police after injuring seven people in a knife attack at an Auckland supermarket in 2021.
A hearing to determine the scope of the coroner’s investigation into Samsudeen’s death resumed in Auckland for its second day Tuesday morning.
Coroner Marcus Elliott asked police why a group of three surveillance officers stayed outside when Samsudeen entered the LynnMall Countdown supermarket on 3 September 2021.
Todd Simmonds, the lawyer representing one of the surveillance officers and three Special Tactics Group (STG) officers, said the plainclothes surveillance officers were not equipped to confront an attacker.
