"Come here!": The Afghan hero who faced the New Zealand terrorist and prevented the massacre is bigger

While an armed man was advancing towards the mosque, killing those who were on his way, Abdul Aziz did not hide. Instead, he took the first thing he could find, a machine for credit card payments. He ran out and shouted "Come here!".

Aziz has been described as a hero who helped prevent other deaths during Friday prayers at Christchurch's Linwood Mosque, after pulling the shooter into a chase, before fleeing it at full speed.

Latef Alabi, prayer guide of the Linwood Mosque, badured that the death toll would have been much higher without Aziz's intervention. He heard the voices outside the temple and stopped the prayer from leaning out the window. When he saw the armed attacker, dressed in black, he first thought that he was a policeman, then he saw two bodies and heard their cries threatened with death.

Quickly, he ordered that the 80 or so present be thrown to the ground. Some, nervous, did not listen until they heard the gunshots. "He appeared this brother. That was for him and he managed to recover, so we were savedAlabi said: "If I could have entered the mosque, we would all be dead," he added.

Aziz, 48, did not hesitate. He came to shout from the mosque, trying to distract the terrorist. Inside, his two youngest children, aged 11 and 5, begged him to return with them.. But he wanted to protect them.

At that time, Brenton Tarrant, who had already killed 41 people in Al Noor Mosque, returned to his vehicle to find another rifle. Aziz he used what he had at his disposal. The only thing he found was a credit card payment device, which he had launched to try to scare him.

The killer has returned to the shots. Aziz ran to hide among the cars. It was not a movie or a video game, it was risking his life to stop him.

As he approached, he saw a weapon on the ground, left by Tarrant. Aziz took it, ready to face it. He pulled the trigger, unsuccessfully. I did not have any more ammo.

Once again, he came back to the car. "I just threw the weapon like an arrow and broke a windowpane. That's why he got scared"badured the subject.

The murderer did not stop insulting him, baduring that he was going to kill everyone. But he finally drove the car away from the mosque. A few minutes later, he would be intercepted by police while dozens of people

Born in Kabul, Aziz said that He left Afghanistan as a refugee while he was a child and lived more than 25 years in Australia, before settling in New Zealand a few years ago.. "I have been to many countries and it is one of the most beautiful," he said, emphasizing his tranquility.

With respect to his actions during the attack, he stated that he did not think about what he was doing because he was on the autopilot and that he was not thinking not be a hero. As he thinks, that's what "anyone" would have done for him. "For Allah, it was not the moment of my death"