New Zealand supermarket attacker was fighting deportation for immigration fraud

Police outside the supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, where a violent extremist stabbed seven shoppers (Brett Phibbs/AP)

The Islamic State-inspired extremist who was shot dead by police after stabbing seven people in a New Zealand supermarket had been fighting deportation for immigration fraud, officials have said.

New details about the attack by Ahamed Samsudeen in Auckland on Friday emerged as the condition of some of those injured in the incident improved.