Pilot student, owner of a takeaway store among victims of shootings in a mosque in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH (Reuters) – An aeronautical engineer, a takeaway shop owner, a student pilot; Details of some of the 50 people shot in two mosques in New Zealand paint a picture of dozens of ordinary lives that ended brutally and savagely.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, presumed white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday. Tarrant was dismissed without a plea and must appear in court on April 5th. Police said he was facing new charges.

Friday's attack, described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a terrorist, was the worst peacetime mbadacre in New Zealand.

At Hagley College, a school on the other side of a park at Al Noor Mosque where more than 40 people were killed, a makeshift support center was set up Sunday.

A group of friends and relatives of the victims came in, a woman carrying sandwiches and falafel.

Muzzamil Pathan arrived to offer his condolences to a friend, Imran Khan, who was killed in a second mosque in the suburb of Linwood.

Khan organized a delivery and recently opened a butcher shop, he said.

"He was a good person. We hope that does not happen. He came here to New Zealand 18 years ago – he was only 47 years old. It was a self-taught man, said Pathan.

National airline Air New Zealand said Lilik Abdul Hamid, an aircraft maintenance engineer, had been killed at Al Noor Mosque.

"Lilik has been a valuable part of our engineering team in Christchurch for 16 years, but he has already met the team well before, when he had worked with our aeronautical engineers in a role prior to overseas, "said Christopher Luxon, general manager of Air New Zealand a statement.

"The friendships that he created at the time led him to apply for a role in Air New Zealand and to relocate to Christchurch. His loss will be deeply felt by the team. "

Hafiz Musa Patel, an Imman visiting Fiji, was also killed, according to Abdul Aroon, a friend of Auckland.

"We did not think anything like this could happen in this country," Aroon told Reuters.

SIX PAKISTANIS DEATH, THREE MISSING

One student, who asked not to be identified, said that a friend had been killed.

"He was studying to become a pilot and we saw him in clbad in the morning. Then he went to the mosque as usual and we have no news of him, "he said.

"Last night, a friend called me around midnight to announce his death."

The majority of the victims were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

Pakistan's high commissioner said six citizens were killed and three others missing.

Khaled Mustafa, a recent Syrian refugee, was also killed at Al Noor Mosque, said Syrian Solidarity spokesman for New Zealand Ali Akil at the Stuff news site.

Mustafa and his family had "survived the atrocities" in their home country and "arrived here in a safe haven where they were killed in the most atrocious way".

His son, Hamza, about 16 years old, was missing, and his son Zaid, about 13 years old, is at the Christchurch hospital where he was operated for six hours. said Akil.