‘RUN!’: NZ Shooting Victims Recount Horror, Mourn the Lost

‘RUN!’: NZ Shooting Victims Recount Horror, Mourn the Lost
Yasir Amin, 35-year-old, describes his run-in with the gunman in Friday's mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 16, 2019. Kristen Gelineau/AP Photo
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—Amin and his father, Muhammad Amin Nasir, were just 200 meters from the Al Noor mosque on Friday, March 15, when everything went wrong.

They had no idea that a gunman had just slaughtered at least 41 people inside the mosque’s hallowed halls, or that more people would be killed at a second mosque soon after. All they knew was that a car that had been driving by had suddenly stopped. And a man was leaning out the car’s window, pointing a gun at them.