CHRISTCHURCH: When Malaysian Noor Hamzah, 54, left home on Friday afternoon to go for his prayers at Al Noor mosque, he didn't think too much about it.
"Bang, bang, bang! It was really loud," he told Channel NewsAsia on Saturday, a few blocks down from the mosque, where mourners crowded the police blockade and left a huge pile of flowers. But Noor didn't dare run out for fear of being spotted, so he crouched behind a car and kept his head low. All while gunshots thundered overhead."Everybody was hiding," he said."Nobody wanted to be seen."
Noor said heavily armed police stormed the car park and shouted for everyone to lay prone. After police secured the area, paramedics rushed in and Noor and the rest were escorted out. In front of the mosque, and even along the road, he saw at least five more bodies."People probably ran quite far, but still got shot," he said.Noor and the rest were asked to assemble at Hagley Park, adjacent to the mosque, for about half an hour. When a police officer took his statement, he could see that the officer was visibly shaken."It was the first time that something like this had happened," Noor said.
"I still have duties on this earth, I suppose," he said."There are people who have been invited to return home. A lot of them were my acquaintances."
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