When racist attacker Brenton Tarrant stormed the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, little Mucad Ibrahim tried to run away, while his father and big brother pretended they were dead. The three-year-old was identified as the youngest victim of the massacre
The three-year-old was identified yesterday as the youngest victim of the New Zealand mass slaughter in which two mosques were targeted – Al Noor and the nearby Linwood mosque – and at least 49 Muslims were killed.
“Verily we belong to God and to Him we shall return,” his family posted. “Will miss you dearly, brother.” A woman who lost her husband during Friday's mass shootings cries outside an information centre for families, Saturday, March 16, 2019, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Picture: AP His 94-year-old grandmother, Joyce, said in an interview that her grandson was a “good boy” whom she last saw at Christmas in their hometown of Grafton in New South Wales, Australia.His mother, Sharon, is a high school teacher who was teaching an English class as her son carried out his attack. When journalists started calling her school, she was pulled out of class and told what had happened.“It is all very shocking, especially [it being] Brenton, he’s a good boy,” Joyce reportedly said.
One of Tarrant’s victims, Naeem Rashid, a Pakistan-born man, tried to wrestle the gun away from him during the attack to save other worshippers. Rashid was badly wounded and later died in hospital. His 21-year old son, Talha, was also killed.
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