Hundreds of flowers were piled up amid candles, balloons and notes of grief and love outside the Al Noor mosque. 50 hearts for 50 lives.”Two days after Friday’s attack, New Zealand’s deadliest shooting in modern history, relatives were still waiting for authorities to release the bodies. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours. Another seven people were killed at Linwood mosque and one more person died later at Christchurch Hospital. Before Friday’s attack, New Zealand’s deadliest shooting in modern history took place in 1990 in the small town of Aramoana, where a gunman killed 13 people following a dispute with a neighbour.

Source: National Post March 17, 2019 04:10 UTC