New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the massacre during Friday prayers is "one of New Zealand's darkest days." (Tessa Burrows/AFP/Getty Images)Nabi moved his family to New Zealand in 1979 from Afghanistan to escape the Soviet-Afghan war. On Saturday, Pakistan's foreign ministry informed his family that Ahmen was among those killed during the mosque attack. Mahfuz said relatives in New Zealand told him when the shootings began, Parvin rushed to her husband's mosque to protect him. Sayyad was last seen "lying on the floor of the bloody mosque, bleeding from his lower body," she said her father told her.

Source: CBC News March 16, 2019 22:11 UTC