Attacks on mosques in New Zealand: Victims aged 3 to 77
The faithful killed in the Friday attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch ranged in age from three to 77, according to a non-definitive list of victims established by families.
The identity of the victims has not yet been formally announced by the authorities.
But this family list, which lists 48 of the 50 people shot by Australian extremist Brenton Tarrant, gives some idea of the variety of nationalities of the victims. This document quotes the names of 44 men and four women.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that the list was not "official" and would not be "until the formal identification was over".
"I know that the reception of this provisional list last night was certainly overwhelming," she said.
Four Egyptians, one Saudi, one Indonesian, four Jordanians and six Pakistanis are among the victims. Here are some of these victims:
Death trying to protect the faithful
Daoud Nabi, an Afghan of 71, was killed while trying to save worshipers in the al-Nour mosque in the city center.
The man who lived in New Zealand for more than 40 years, after fleeing his country in the 70s, said of his adopted country that it was "a little piece of paradise," told AFP his son, Omar.
"I learned from my best friend's father that he jumped on someone to save his life," Omar told Stuff.co.nz. "He braved the bullets to save someone's life and he died."
Another son of Daoud, Yama, was going to the mosque - to be reconciled with his father after a quarrel - when he came across a friend outside who told him, "Your father saved my life. ", according to the Australian newspaper The Age.
But it was only by seeing the images of the carnage filmed by the attacker and in particular his father, lying dead on the back, that he really became aware of the tragedy.
"I never thought it could happen in New Zealand, it's a peaceful country," Yama Nabi, overwhelmed by emotion, told AFP.
A "brave little soldier" of 14 years
Sayyad Milne, 14, was killed at al-Nour mosque, where he was like every Friday, with his mother and friends, according to the New Zealand Herald.
His father, John Milne, said that his death had not yet been officially confirmed but that he had been told that his son had been seen in blood on the floor of the mosque.
"I lost my boy, he had just turned 14," he told the newspaper. His son wanted to be a footballer.
"A brave little soldier, it's so hard to know that he was shot by someone who made fun of everything and everyone."
A 3-year-old boy still missing
The last time Mucad Ibrahim, three years old, was seen alive, was in al-Nour mosque, with his brother and his father.
His brother, Abdi, managed to flee the massacre. Her father pretended to be dead after being shot and also escaped, according to The Age. Mucad has not been seen since.
But the family, who went to the Christchurch hospital to look at the records, in vain, no longer has any hope of finding him alive, according to Abdi.
Father and daughter in hospital
Wasseim Alsati, a Jordanian barber, and his 4-year-old daughter, Alin, were seriously injured at the al-Nour mosque.
"Please pray for me and my daughter," Wasseim Alsati said in a video shot from his hospital bed.
According to a friend of Wasseim, Carolyne Phillips, the man had an operation because of the perforation of his bowel, injuries to the pelvis, and to extract bursts of bullets from his hip.
He arrived in New Zealand in 2014.
Authorities said 34 wounded remain hospitalized.
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