New Zealand mosque shooting: Eyewitnesses share horrifying details of the attack 'I could see blood everywhere and bodies lying dead'
Eyewitnesses who were present at the New Zealand mosque massacre that took place on Friday have revealed what they saw as the horrifying attack claimed the lives of people around them, one after the other. A trader who was passing by one of the mosques that were attacked, Masjid Al Noor, told Radio New Zealand that he witnessed the "people running for their lives" and that he heard "rapid fire" from a semiautomatic weapon. The police have confirmed that the gunman, believed to be 28-year-old Australian national Brenton Tarrant, was using a semiautomatic weapon.
"We saw these people hit the ground, they were being shot in front of us," he said. The eyewitness was with a colleague and he said that people were reportedly nursing victims on the footpath. "There was one little girl, probably about five, she’d been shot and her father," he said. The trader and his colleague decided to help the girl, they told the publication. "We managed to get the five-year-old on the back of one of the vehicles before the ambulance came, she was critical,” he said. The little girl's father, however, passed away. "The man passed away in his (colleague’s) arms. It was surreal."