Sri Lanka Offers Help With New Zealand Knife Attack Probe

New Zealand police shot dead a 32-year-old Sri Lankan after he attacked seven people in an Auckland supermarket on Friday.

Sri Lanka will cooperate with New Zealand's investigation into a knife rampage by an Islamic State-inspired assailant from the South Asian nation, authorities said Saturday. Police shot dead the 32-year-old Sri Lankan after he attacked seven people in an Auckland supermarket on Friday. The man had been living in New Zealand since 2011. "Sri Lanka condemns this senseless violence, and stands ready to cooperate with New Zealand authorities in any way necessary," foreign ministry spokesman Kohularangan Ratnasingam said in the Sri Lankan government's first comment on the incident. Ratnasingam commended the quick response of New Zealand authorities in dealing with the attacker.