A girl walk to lay flowers on a wall at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, March 17, 2019. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within 24 hours. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said police were working with pathologists and coroners to release the bodies as soon as they could. 50 hearts for 50 lives.”The gunman livestreamed 17 minutes of the rampage at the Al Noor mosque, where he sprayed worshippers with bullets. 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 neighbor.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2019 02:10 UTC