CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Sixteen-year-old Hamza Mustafa and his father Khaled Mustafa, who had arrived in New Zealand only a few months ago after escaping the war in Syria, were laid to rest Wednesday, the first victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks to be buried. “I don’t want to be here alone,” Zaid said, according to one attendee at the funeral. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Wednesday visited the school, which lost another student and a former student in the shootings. Christchurch is continuing to come to terms with the attacks, the worst mass killing and the only terrorist attack of this kind ever to have struck the country. “I’m of Lebanese origin, I’m a Muslim, I’m an Arab,” said Adib Khanafer, a vascular surgeon and a father of four, who choked back the tears when he described the cases he dealt with on Friday.

Source: National Post March 20, 2019 12:45 UTC