A son’s search for his 71-year-old father has ended in tragedy with news he died after a mass shooting in Christchurch.
On Friday, a man entered a mosque in central Christchurch and opened fire on people gathered inside the building. A second shooting occurred at a mosque in Linwood.
Omar Nabi appealed for information as to the whereabouts of his father, Haji-Daoud Nabi, on Friday.
His father, who ran the Afghan Association, was inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque on Deans Ave at the time of the shooting.
Following the shooting he tried calling his father several times but could not get hold of him.
“I need to know if my father is OK,” he told Stuff on Friday.
On Saturday morning at 4.30am he was told his father did not make it out of the mosque alive.
Nabi said that doctors at Christchurch Hospital told him that anyone who was not listed at the hospital, was likely still in the mosque.
He said he could use a million words to describe his father.
“He was a man with a lot of talents … and wisdom he shared to use as life skills.
“He’s a very humble man who has helped a lot of people.”
Omar Nabi said his father would be buried but he would like to take him back to Afghanistan.
-Stuff
Featured image: Haji-Daoud Nabi, who runs the Afghan Association, was inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque at the time of the shooting is missing his family say
