Seven people were injured in the Islamic State-inspired terror attack in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has said, updating initial reports that only six people had been hurt.

Speaking at a media conference in Wellington on Saturday, New Zealand’s prime minister said that of the seven injured, five were in hospital, and three of them were in a critical condition.

The identity of the attacker, a Sri Lankan who was shot dead by police after the attack at a supermarket in Auckland on Friday, remains suppressed.