The world reacts to New Zealand mosque attacks

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Political and religious leaders from across the world have expressed their condemnation at the deadly shooting at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Forty-nine people were killed and at least 48 suffered serious injuries in the shootings targeting the mosques during Friday prayers.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the shootings appeared to be a well-planned "terrorist attack". Police said three men and a woman were in custody in connection with the attacks.

The timing of the shootings and the posting on social media of what appeared to be live, point-of-view video footage of the assault by a gunman, added to the distress of many. Here is how political leaders around the world reacted soon after the incident.

Turkey

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the deadly attack on the mosques, describing them as "the latest example of rising racism and Islamophobia."

"With this attack, hostility towards Islam, that the world has been idly watching and even encouraging for some time, has gone beyond individual harassment to reach the level of mass killing," Erdogan said at the funeral of a former Turkish minister.

"It is clear that the understanding represented by the killer that also targets our country, our people and myself, has started to take over Western societies like a cancer." Erdogan's spokesman separately condemned what he called a "racist and fascist" attack.

"This attack shows the point which hostility to Islam and enmity to Muslims has reached," Ibrahim Kalin wrote on Twitter. "We have seen many times Islamophobic discourse against Islam and Muslims turning into a perverse and murderous ideology. The world must raise its voice against such discourse and must say stop to Islamophobic fascist terrorism," he said. (READ WHAT THE USA, JORDAN, EGYPT AND OTHER COUNTRIES SAY)