An Indian family grieves as hours pass without father's body after New Zealand shootings

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An Indian family grieves as hours pass without father's body after New Zealand shootings
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Indian immigrant Imran Khokhar, 27, had dropped off his father at the Al Noor mo...

NEW DELHI - Indian immigrant Imran Khokhar, 27, had dropped off his father at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch and was still in the parking lot when he heard the screams.

Inside, a gunman was on a shooting rampage, going on to slaughter 50 people at two mosques in the city. “Why am I not being allowed to see my father’s body?,” an agitated Imran told Altaf, 40, who spoke to Reuters via telephone. Khokhar was one of the five people of Indian origin confirmed dead by the Indian High Commission in New Zealand.Imran and his mother were camping outside the hospital trying desperately to retrieve Khokhar’s body. But there was no progress, they said.Khokhar had been scheduled to fly back to India on Sunday with his wife.“Nothing is clear to us,” he said.

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