the longer The time passes after the terrorist attacks that killed 50 people in Christchurch on Friday, the more stories of what happened inside the mosques now coming forward.
Abdul Aziz, originally from Afghanistan, was inside the second, smaller mosque in Linwood with their four children for Friday prayers. Suddenly shouted to anyone that they were shot at. At that time, the now-detained Brenton Tarrant, 28, has already killed over 40 people in the Al Noor mosque, but it was when no one knew.
he ran toward the terrorist and the only thing he had in his hands was a card that he waved as a weapon. Tarrant must have lost or thrown a weapon on the ground and ran back to his car to retrieve a new one. Abdul Aziz picked up the rifle from the street and tried to shoot it but the magazine was empty.
I shouted to the guy, come hither, come hither! I just wanted that he would be focused on me and not someone else, ” says Abdul Aziz to Reuters.
Tarrant came into the mosque again, and Aziz followed with the empty weapon in his hand.
When he saw me with the gun in hand he ran back to his car. I tried to throw the gun through the window, but Tarrant only swore at me and drove away.
A thank you Aziz for his courage. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP
to catch a killer. Aziz returned into the mosque where seven people lost their lives but where upwards of a hundred survived.
” I told them that they were safe now, that it was over. I saw that everyone tried to hide, that they were afraid, ” he says.
on Sunday evening, local time, was moved the last of the bodies from the mosques and the first families received their relatives ‘ bodies. Now will all the families want to bury their dead as soon as possible. Autoplay and the formal identification of the victims will last until Wednesday.
all the shops again, people go to work and children to school.
A high school student from Cashmere high school, which lost six students in the bus attack, calls on all Christchurchelever to gather at the memorial site in the vicinity of Al Noor mosque to honour the victims.
Okirano Tilaia is one of 140 students who baked all weekend for the families and rescue teams.
“I wanted to do something positive for our society and not concentrate on the negative,” he says to Radio New Zealand. He has contacted seven other secondary schools and I hope many students will come to the site and that they together should form a single long chain of light.
“We’ll start with to light a single candle, and then continue in the chain to all the candles are lit,” he says.
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