Worshippers have visited a New Zealand mosque as it reopened for the first time after dozens of people died there in a mass shooting. Hundreds of people stopped at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch to lay flowers or pray after police removed a cordon and those running the mosque decided to reopen.
Worshippers have visited a New Zealand mosque as it reopened for the first time after dozens of people died there in a mass shooting.
Shagat Khan, the president of the Muslim Association of Canterbury, said they had not planned to open the mosque so soon but when they saw the crowds gathering after the police cordon was removed, they decided to allow people to enter in managed groups"so the mosque will be alive again". A total of 50 people were killed at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, in the nation's worst terrorist attack.
Abdullahi Ibrahim Diriye, the uncle of the youngest victim of the shooting, three-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, visited the mosque with the boy's father.Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, who travelled to New Zealand to pay his respects, hugged a man at the entrance of the mosque and told him to"be patient".
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