The burials of two people murdered during Friday prayers at two mosques in Christchurch last week are about to take place
The first burials of the 50 victims murdered in a shooting in two mosques in New Zealand are about to take place, as a diplomatic row erupts across the Tasman between Australia and Turkey.
A police officer drops off flowers at a park outside the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch ahead of the funeral."By the end of Wednesday, we should have completed the majority of those identifications," Commissioner Bush told reporters in Christchurch.The Muslim community of Christchurch has been waiting anxiously for the release of the bodies, which under Islamic law must be interred as soon as possible.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a political rally to play parts of a video live-streamed by the gunman to Facebook - despite New Zealand's request the distressing and violent footage not be distributed - as a tool to stoke nationalist and religious sentiment ahead of local elections on March 31. "I find the comments obviously offensive, deeply offensive, but also I think very unhelpful," Mr Morrison told Sydney radio 2GB on Wednesday.READ MORE"If New Zealand fails to hold the attacker accountable, one way or another we will hold him to account," he said.
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