A New Zealand supermarket chain announced that it was temporarily removing all scissors and knives from its shelves following an attack that left several people injured at one of its stores on Friday.

A general manager of supermarket chain Countdown said it was also considering if they would sell such items in the future.

"Last night, we made the decision to temporarily remove all knives and scissors from our shelves while we consider whether we should continue to sell them," Kiri Hannifin, Countdown's general manager for safety, said in a statement on Saturday.

On Friday, a Sri Lankan national who was previously known to security forces in New Zealand entered a Countdown supermarket store where he went after several customers and stabbed them, witnesses said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that the attacker "was a supporter of ISIS ideology."

"It was carried out by an individual - not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who is gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community. He alone carries the responsibility for these acts; let that be where the judgment falls," Ardern said.

In 2019, a white supremacist shot and killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. The incident was labeled as terrorism by Ardern following the deadly attack, which also injured 40 others, according to The Washington Post.

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