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The Daily

The Mosque Attacks in New Zealand

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A gunman opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 50 people. The massacre was partly streamed online. We look at why the attack was, in some ways, made by and for the internet. Guest: Kevin Roose, who writes about technology for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the deal.

0:10.0

Today, the death toll from a mass shooting targeting Muslims in New Zealand rose from 49 to 50 over the weekend.

0:19.0

After officials found another body at the Al-Nor mosque, where most of the deaths occurred.

0:26.0

Kevin Rooves, on why this attack was made by and for the internet. It's Monday, March 18th.

0:40.0

Ferry, would you mind just telling us one more time of what happened at the in the mosque?

0:47.0

When shooting started, it started from the hallway.

0:52.0

So I could hear. Then the magazine was finished, then he revealed again and came back again.

1:06.0

I saw all the blastering coming down from the wall on the ceiling.

1:10.0

I knew it was going to be a draw.

1:12.0

Right. So we needed to hear a sound.

1:15.0

When he was shooting at me, there's a fancier here. He was shooting at me, attacked here and I come here and I find the gun somewhere here in a dead body here as well.

1:33.0

Over the weekend, through dozens of interviews with survivors, a story began to emerge of what happened on Friday inside the mosque in Christchurch.

1:42.0

Was that your regular mosque, were you visiting that mosque?

1:46.0

The regular mosque.

1:48.0

Yeah.

1:48.0

The shooting began at the Al-Nor mosque, where Fareed Ahmad and his wife, Humsah, who had moved to New Zealand from Bangladesh were attending afternoon prayer.

1:59.0

The lady's room was on the right hand side. So all the ladies were there and my wife is a leading person for ladies.

2:11.0

She had a philosophy. She always used to tell me, I don't want to hold any position and I want to prove that you don't need to have any position to help people.

2:22.0

She was like a magnet.

2:24.0

And exactly the same thing happened. The shooting started.

2:28.0

She started instructing several ladies and children to get out.

2:35.0

And she was screaming, come this way, hurry up, this and that, she was doing all these things.

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