Volunteers end grim task of preparing Christchurch victims for burial
Mourners carrying a coffin of a victim of the New Zealand twin mosque attack during a funeral at the Memorial Park cemetery in Christchurch yesterday. The nation yesterday marked a week since a heavily armed white supremacist stormed two mosques in a murder spree streamed online. – AFP pic, March 23, 2019.
FOR three days and nights the volunteers toiled, diligently washing the bodies of those murdered by a white supremacist in the Christchurch mosque massacres, finally embracing when the last victim was wrapped in a shroud. In the aftermath of the killing of 50 Muslims one week ago, a team of specialists in Islamic funeral rites rushed to the terrorised city on New Zealand’s South Island to perform a grim but vital task.
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