CHRISTCHURCH: A
right-wing extremist has been charged over Friday's horrifying gun attacks on
two New Zealand mosques, which left 49 people dead and dozens more injured. The
worshippers and their families caught up in the attacks in the normally
peaceful city of Christchurch came from around the world. Here are some of
their stories:

The Afghan who
ran into gunfire

An Afghan man,
thought to be in his 60s or 70s, died after he reportedly ran into the line of
fire to save fellow worshippers at the Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch.
Daoud Nabi had lived in New Zealand for more than 40 years after fleeing
Afghanistan as a refugee in the late 1970s, and believed his adopted home to be
a "slice of paradise", his son Omar told AFP.

Omar learnt his
father had died after trying to shield someone else from a bullet. "I got
told by my best friend's father... that he leaped on somebody else to save
their life," he told Stuff.co.nz. "He jumped in the firing line to
save somebody else's life and he has passed away." Another of Daoud's
sons, Yama, was on the way to the mosque -- to make up with his father after a
small falling out -- when he bumped into a friend outside who told him "your
father saved my life. Your father saved my life", according to Australian
newspaper The Age.

It wasn't until
Yama re-watched the gunman's video of the rampage -- which he streamed on
Facebook Live -- and saw his father lying dead on his back that he realized his
father did not escape. "I never thought it would happen in New Zealand.
It's a peaceful country," Yama Nabi said, tears welling up in his eyes.
There were reports on social media that Daoud Nabi had opened the door to the
terrorist, greeting him with the words "hello brother".

The 14-year-old
'brave little soldier'

Sayyad Milne, 14,
died at the Al Noor mosque which he attended with his mother and friends every
Friday, the New Zealand Herald reported. His father John Milne said his death
hadn't been officially confirmed but he'd been told the teenager had been seen
lying on the floor of the mosque, bleeding. 
"I've lost my little boy, he's just turned 14," he told the
paper, adding that his son had been a keen footballer. "A brave little
soldier. It's so hard... to see him just gunned down by someone who didn't care
about anyone or anything."

The
three-year-old still missing

The last time Mucad
Ibrahim, aged three, was seen alive was at the Al Noor mosque with his brother
and father. His brother Abdi managed to flee the carnage while his father
pretended he was dead after he was shot and managed to escape, The Age said.
Mucad has not been seen since the shooting. Abdi said his family -- who had
been to Christchurch Hospital