Christchurch shooting: Gunman's chilling live stream of the mosque attack
Chilling footage of the horrific New Zealand shooting was broadcast live on YouTube by the alleged gunman who reportedly strapped a camera to his head.
In the distressing 17-minute footage the man says: "Let's get this party started," as he starts his car and travels to the mosque.
He then parks, gets a gun out of his car and walks towards the mosque.
He opens fire several times before throwing the gun to the ground.
He then picks up another gun and continues to fire, shooting one person as they attempt to crawl away and fires at another person as they run away.
He then walks into another room where he fires at people trying to hide from him.
Several bodies can be seen in the video.
The man continues to fire at the people as they lie on the ground.
He then exits the mosque running back to his car firing at people on the street before taking another gun out of the boot of his car and running back to the mosque and firing through the front entrance.
He then re-enters the mosque, again shooting at people lying on the ground from close range as he walks around a room.
Once outside, the man shoots again down the street.
One woman can be seen lying on the road yelling "help me, help me".
He then puts another address into his car's GPS and shoots at several people while in his car.
A Facebook spokesman acknowledged at 5pm on Friday that there was still live footage of the shooting circulating on the social media platform.
"As you can probably imagine this is still an unfolding issue. We are still in the process of removing content from Facebook," he said.
A spokeswoman for Google, which owns YouTube, said it would work closely with the New Zealand authorities to offer any assistance it could.
"Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy.
"Shocking, violent and graphic videos have no place on our platform, and are removed as soon as we become aware of them."
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