[ad_1] Multiple people are feared dead after a suspected gunman opened fire before being killed by police at a construction site in Auckland, New Ze
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Multiple people are feared dead after a suspected gunman opened fire before being killed by police at a construction site in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday morning.
Armed police stormed the CBD area after reports of a person with a gun at a building under construction on Queen Street.
Gun shots were heard at 8.08am (6.08am AEST), the NZ Herald reports.
Around 100 tradies were told by police to go to the top of the Deloitte building to take cover, one construction worker told Stuff.
Workers could be seen ducking for cover on the roof of the building as an officer stood by in a dramatic photo.
The gunman is dead, local media outlets are reporting, although police have not confirmed this.
According to the NZ Herald, the 24-year-old man was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when he entered the building site at about 7.20am.
New Zealand Police said in a statement officers were “responding to reports of a serious incident” in the Auckland CBD.
“A number of armed police are currently responding and the public is asked to please stay indoors and avoid the area,” police said.
“This is a significant incident with multiple emergency services responding. A large police presence will remain in the area.”
Police confirmed in an update that the incident was “currently contained to a building in lower Queen Street, which is under construction”.
St John Ambulance said it had treated six people so far, three patients with serious injuries and three with moderate injuries.
According to the NZ Herald, at least one of the people injured is a police officer and there are multiple deaths, but this has not been confirmed.
“This is a scary situation for Aucklanders on their Thursday morning commute to work,” Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown tweeted. “Please stay at home, avoid travel into the city centre.”
One worker told Stuff he was heading towards the Shed 10 building on Queens Wharf when he saw lots of police with guns come running.
He was told by an officer to run and get behind a hard and solid object.
“The area hadn’t been blocked off by then,” Dion Hosking told the website. “There were hundreds of construction and office workers watching.”
He said everyone was told to move into Shed 10.
“I was about to go in, and then all of a sudden I heard bang, bang, bang,” he added.
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