The attack on two New Zealand mosques took the lives of 50 worshipers Friday and left dozens more wounded when a white supremacist opened fire. Here are the stories of some of those killed and wounded.
Residents pay their respects by placing flowers for the victims of the mosque attacks in Christchurch at the Masjid Umar mosque in Auckland, New Zealand.
"He had done chartered accountancy from Pakistan. He was the only son to his parents. He had only one younger sister…. He had only started his career, but the enemies took his life." "We received the disturbing news," Ahsan's father, Mohammed Sayeeduddin told the newspaper Saturday. Friends and family had been trying to reach Ahsan since the attack.Four of Adan Ibrahin Dirie's five children managed to escape Friday's attacks, but the youngest, Abdullahi, was killed, his uncle, Abdulrahman Hashi, 60, a preacher at Dar al Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis, told the New Zealand Herald.
The New Zealand Herald reported that the family searched in vain for the toddler at Christchurch hospital and later posted a photograph of Mucad, smiling with Abdi with the caption:"Verily we belong to God and to Him we shall return. Will miss you dearly brother". Sayyad's mother, Noraini, was also in the mosque and managed to escape, Henry said. The teenager has two other siblings, 15-year-old twins Shuayb and Cahaya.
Mortara was an avid cricket fan, and would always send a sparring text with relatives over cricket matches when Canterbury faced Auckland.Nabi moved his family to New Zealand in 1979 to escape the Soviet-Afghan war. Days before the shootings, his son, Omar, recalled his father speaking about the importance of unity.
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