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They met on the stairwell.

Going up, a man in dark clothes holding a pump-action shotgun.

Going down, workers who thought they were evacuating the downtown Auckland office building they were refurbishing because a fire alarm had gone off.

“[He told] all of us to go up to the roof. If not, he’d shoot us”, a shaken survivor of this morning’s mass shooting at One Queen St told the Herald.

Running upstairs in terror, the man and a colleague hid on an upper floor before eventually reaching the top of the 21-level building, which carries the Deloitte motif on its exterior and is located in the country’s busiest office worker district and next to a transport hub that includes the Downtown Ferry Terminal and Britomart Train Station.

In the agony of not knowing whether they would live or die, the pair heard more gunshots as they awaited rescue from an early-morning horror that would end with three people dead - one the gunman - and at least 10 injured, a policeman among them.

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Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances that led to this morning’s firearms incident in the central city.

Upwards of 70 people who witnessed the events have been spoken to today.

Police have reduced the cordon around the area, which is now in place around the immediate vicinity of the site.

Roads are open around the area.

A scene examination will also continue tomorrow, and a scene guard remains in place overnight.

We can advise that Police are not currently aware of any additional people presenting at hospital with injuries this afternoon.

The Police officer hospitalised this morning continues to be in a stable condition, and support remains in place for that member and their family.

We can also confirm a second Police officer that was involved in the response was later taken to hospital for a precautionary check up.

They are not seriously injured.

A priority for the investigation is to identify the two people who died in this morning’s events and contact their next of kin.

Police are not currently able to release the identity of the offender involved until formal identification procedures are carried out.

Pump-action shotguns are among the most common firearms used in New Zealand and shouldn’t be considered any more dangerous than others, says a spokesman for firearms owners.

Council of Licenced Firearms Owners spokesman Hugh Devereux-Mack said: “All firearms are capable of killing. The holder of it determines what they are pointed at and what they will destroy.”

He said pump-action shotguns appeared to offer “no particular danger - just a shorter range”.

Pump-action shotguns were able to chamber up to eight rounds, depending on the model and modifications. The type of ammunition discharged varied, with shotgun shells able to be loaded with pellets of varying sizes.

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On behalf of our metro Auckland hospital teams and Te Whatu Ora, I would like to express our sincere sympathy for those impacted by this morning’s incident in Auckland’s CBD.

The public can be assured that while our hospitals are busy, they coped well with the earlier situation. Our highly skilled kaimahi are trained to deal with emergencies like these, and our hospitals worked together.

As with any emergency, we needed to prioritise patients based on clinical need, which meant that other patients may have waited a little longer. We would like to thank those who were waiting for their patience and understanding.

We would like to reassure the public that our emergency departments are open and operating as normal and that if they or their loved ones need urgent hospital-level care, they will receive it.

In a statement, LT McGuiness said the gunman was an employee of a subcontractor that had been working on the project.

"Today's tragic event has been a huge shock to us all. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families, and all those impacted by the incident that occurred on our site this morning. Our site team conducted themselves with great courage today and we are providing all our staff and contractors continuing care and support."

The site remains in the hands of police while its investigation continues, the construction management company said.

"one thing we will all have a question about is how the shooter got the gun in the first place," Hipkins said.

"I had a brief conversation with the president of Fifa. The event will go ahead, it will be safe to go ahead."

"It is safe to go to the Fifa opening event. We would have preferred it to not have started this way.

"I will be going, it will be safe to go."

Hipkins said the incident would be acknowledged at the opening game.

"Most of the information that I discussed with police is now in the public domain.

"I was interested in how the police were coping because this is a traumatic event for them as well."