EDMONTON—Sitting 13,000 kilometres away from Friday’s Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings, Chand Gul felt the pain of the tragedy all the same. New Zealand mosque shooting victim Naeem Rashid, 50, has been hailed as a hero by the Pakistani government for trying to stop the shooter during Friday’s attack. He was in his final year of engineering studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Gul said, and was excited to begin his career and settle down to start a family. They were among the 51 killed in Friday's mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. She said her three sons, who regularly attend Qur’an studies in an Edmonton mosque after school, are now worried for their safety.

Source: thestar March 19, 2019 00:07 UTC