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New Zealand mosque shooting: 3-year-old boy who went missing after terror attack 'died in his father's arms'

Mucad Ibrahim's father and brother managed to make it out alive by pretending to be dead as the terrorist shot indiscriminately inside one of the mosques
UPDATED MAR 16, 2019

The shootings at the Al-Noor and Linwood Mosques in Christchurch in New Zealand during the Friday prayers by suspected gunman Brenton Tarrant, 27, has left 49 dead and at least another 20 injured. Many were reported missing after the terror attacks, with the brother and father of three-year-old Mucad Ibrahim being among them. Now it has been reported that Mucad, described as "energetic and playful" died in his father's arms, his family wrote on social media. 

According to the Daily Mail, Mucad was attending the Friday prayers at the Al-Noor mosque in 101 Deans Avenue with his father and older brother, Abdi Abraham, when the gunman walked in and indiscriminately shot at those inside.

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