Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

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Wrapped in white cloth, the bodies were laid to face Mecca, and after jenazah (funeral) prayers, were carried towards their freshly dug graves.

CHRISTCHURCH - The bodies of two victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday - the first burials of the 50 victims.

Hundreds gathered to mourn, some men wearing a taqiyah , others shalwar kameez , while women wore hajibs and scarfs. “There is a desire to show support for the Muslim community as they return to mosques on Friday,” she said.Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist who was living in Dunedin, on New Zealand’s South Island, has been charged with murder following the attack on two mosques last Friday.

“I can assure you this is an absolute international investigation,” Police Commissioner Mike Bush said at a media briefing in the capital Wellington. Families of the victims have been frustrated by the delay as under Islam bodies are usually buried within 24 hours. She talked to about 200 children gathered at the school auditorium about racism and changes in gun laws.

 

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