People in the New Zealand city of Christchurch honored the 51 worshipers who were killed in a mass shooting a year ago in small but poignant ways after a planned national memorial event was canceled due to fears it might spread the new coronavirus.
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New Zealanders have observed a minute's silence at the moment that a volcano erupted a week earlier, killing 18 people.
UPDATE: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand is immediately banning assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and 'military style semi-automatic rifles' like the weapons used in last Friday's attacks on two Christchurch mosques.
Australian police say the family of the suspect in the New Zealand mosque shootings is helping their investigation.
New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush announced the latest death in a news conference. He says 36 victims remain hospitalized, with two of them in critical condition.