Some offered rides to the grocery store or volunteered to walk with their Muslim neighbors if they felt unsafe. Still, Muslims were advised to stay away from mosques while the nation’s security alert remained at the second-highest level a day after the deadliest shooting in modern New Zealand history. There were three in the hallway, at the door leading into the mosque, and people inside the mosque,” he said. They included Asif Shaikh, 44, who said he said he was among more than 100 people at the Al Noor mosque when the attacker came in. Imran had dropped off his father, an electrical engineer, at the Al Noor mosque on Friday and was looking for a parking space when the shooting began.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 16, 2019 06:33 UTC