Neil Johnston and Emily McGarvey report for BBC News. The tournament is going ahead as planned. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the attack was not being treated as terrorism, and no political or ideological motive for the attack had been identified. BBC News reports.Ī shooting has left two people dead and six others injured in Auckland, New Zealand, just before the Women’s World Cup began. While Swedish police have denied permits for protests where the Quran was expected to be burned, the courts have ruled the protests should be permitted, citing free speech laws. Swedish officials confirmed that all embassy staff were safe.
Hundreds of people have stormed Sweden’s embassy in Iraq in protest of the second planned burning of the Quran in Sweden in under a month.
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