The mass shooting in New Zealand mosque has kept the world in a state of shock. Following the investigation, the suspected gunman Brenton Tarrant faces an "unprecedented" sentence that rejected him from applying for release, but could move terror charges cops told media, today.

At least 49 people were killed in attacks on two Christchurch mosques on Friday. One gunman has been identified as an Australian extremist; he apparently livestreaming the assault that triggered the lockdown of the New Zealand city.

At least 35 people were killed and more than 70 others wounded after two explosions ripped through a Shia mosque in Afghanistan's Gardez city on Friday, the media reported.

The death toll in a terrorist attack on a mosque on Friday in Egypt's North Sinai has risen to 305 killed, including 27 children, and 128 others were wounded, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.

At least 12 people, including two attackers, were killed and 23 others were injured in a suicide bombing and subsequent armed assault on a Shia mosque here on Friday. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

"The suicide bomber was in crowded mosque, he shouted 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) and then there was a huge blast," Naveed Akbar, deputy administrator of Mohmand agency, told Reuters.