Christchurch shootings: Father and son in first victim's funerals

Wed, Mar 20th 2019, 03:37 PM

Khaled Mustafa, 44, and Hamza, 16, came as refugees to New Zealand last year.

Six burials took place on Wednesday. Police hope they will soon be able to release the bodies of all those killed in the two Christchurch mosques.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremacist, has been charged with murder.

Islamic tradition calls for bodies to be buried as soon as possible, but the funerals have been delayed by the scale of the identification process.

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