One Family’s Story of Survival and Loss in New Zealand
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I might just give you one to start talking a little bit, I guess, not to tell ourselves. |
| 0:05.0 | Perhaps you could tell me, I guess when you got into Christchurch. |
| 0:11.0 | I met a dollar in Haneen, Elaine, for the first time in Christchurch just over a week ago. |
| 0:17.0 | But have you already talked about it? |
| 0:19.0 | No, I was going to say that. |
| 0:20.0 | They started telling me about what happened on the day of the terror attack in Christchurch, |
| 0:26.0 | at the mosque where their father and brother attained it. |
| 0:29.0 | It was a blur. |
| 0:30.0 | It was definitely a blur. |
| 0:32.0 | They went straight to the hospital. |
| 0:34.0 | Did we go to look for Dad after that? |
| 0:36.0 | We did. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, so we did all the admin. |
| 0:38.0 | We went out and a hunt to try and find him. |
| 0:41.0 | They knew that their dad had gone into surgery. |
| 0:46.0 | So they knew that he had definitely been at the hospital at some point, |
| 0:50.0 | but they hadn't heard about their brother. |
| 0:52.0 | So they get to the hospital and their dad's name isn't anywhere |
| 0:57.0 | and their brother's name isn't anywhere. |
| 0:59.0 | So they basically just start rushing from room to room on a hunt to try and find either of them. |
| 1:06.0 | We've told by so many people that he seemed, |
| 1:10.0 | seen, came out of surgery that he was okay. |
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