An attacker charged during a shootings in a mosque in New Zealand: a witness

Christchurch:

A survivor of the Christchurch mbadacre recounted how a faithful of one of the targeted mosques seized an empty rifle abandoned by the alleged armed man Brenton Tarrant and then used it to chase his attacker.

Alabi Lateef said that he was praying with other people inside Linwood Masjid, the second mosque attacked Friday by white supremacist Tarrant, who confessed himself, when He heard the sound of a shootout.

"I immediately stopped my prayer, I peeked out the window and found a person with, you know, a machine gun and a heavy dress" , he told the Stuff information website.

"At the moment when I peeked on the ground, I saw two, three corpses." Then, I realized that it was something else. Is a terrorist attack. "

Alabi said that he had ordered worshipers to bend down, and then described how he and a "brother" had decided to confront the attacker during a lull in the shot.

"By the time he arrived (outside the mosque), the bullets were finished and the pistol was used," said Lateef.

The two men noticed that Tarrant had left the rifle worn on the ground as he was returning to his car.

Then the loyal unnamed companion of Lateef took the initiative and grabbed the rifle, followed the attacker up to his car and used to break the rear window of the vehicle before he ran away.

The actions of the two men may have spared other victims, Tarrant having been apprehended shortly afterwards by two armed police officers not far from the Linwood mosque while he was driving his car with a broken rear window.

Tarrant used Facebook to broadcast live his initial badault on the Noor Mosque, where at least 40 worshipers were murdered and dozens more injured.

During this attack, the images of his show showed that Tarrant was throwing bullets without mercy inside the mosque, then returned to his car to fetch a new rifle.

He then went back inside and started firing again.

The sequence of the attack also shows at least one loyal Noor mosque who was shot while attempting to charge Tarrant during his rampage.

Lateef was photographed shortly after the attack by local media clad in a gray tunic shalwar kameez covered in blood.

He told Stuff that as soon as the attacker was gone, he returned to the inside of the mosque to help those who had been shot.

"I am very sad about what happened, but I think this country is a peaceful country and I hope that something positive will happen after that," he said while struggling against tears.

"I never thought that such a thing would happen in New Zealand, never."

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