March 18, 2019 | 08:10 am GMT+7 A police officer is pictured outside Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 17, 2019. Photo by Reuters/Jorge Silva Australian police have searched two homes in towns on the New South Wales mid-north coast linked to the investigation into Friday’s mass shootings at New Zealand mosques. Police said that a search warrant was executed on Monday morning by the state’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) at a home in the town of Sandy Beach, near Coffs Harbour, and shortly after another warrant was executed at a home in Lawrence, near Maclean. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and New South Wales Police declined to identify the owners of the homes. “The primary aim of the activity is to formally obtain material that may assist New Zealand Police in their ongoing investigation,” the agencies said in a joint statement. They said the family of the Australian man arrested in Christchurch over the shootings were assisting police. Australian media said one of the homes belonged to the sister of suspected white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who was charged in New Zealand with murder on Saturday. Tarrant, who formerly lived in Grafton in the same region where the… Read full this story
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