‘Panic everywhere!’: Bangladesh cricket team thankful to have escaped New Zealand shooting

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An injured person is loaded into an ambulance following a shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. By Des Bieler Des Bieler Sports reporter covering national topics, including fantasy football, as well as supporting coverage of D.C.-area teams Email Bio Follow March 15 at 7:31 AM Members of the Bangladesh cricket team expressed their gratitude Friday at escaping a mass shooting in New Zealand.

A spokesman for the Bangladesh team told AFP that most members of the squad were on a bus that approached the mosque when shooting broke out. A reporter traveling with the team said to the news service that “distraught” players “got inside a bus and laid down on the floor after the warning [of what was happening].”

— Mohammad Isam March 15, 2019 All members of the Bangladesh Cricket Team in Christchurch, are safely back in the hotel following the incident of shooting in the city. “Entire team got saved from active shooters!!!” batsman Tamim Iqbal tweeted. “Frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers.”

 

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WAO, not for a sec. CALLING them TERRORISTS but CALLING SHOOTERS, if they were MUSLIMS then news.. MUSLIMS TERRORISTS ATTACK N KILLED MORE THAN 10 INNOCENT PEOPLE. No names of 4 men n 1 woman, where they gone otherwise if MUSLIM, HIS FAMILY, PARENTS N GRANDPARENTS ALL TERRORISTS

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