When Afghan refugee Abdul Aziz saw a man brandishing a gun outside his mosque in Christchurch, he ran towards the attacker armed with the only ...
, he ran towards the attacker armed with the only weapon he could find - a hand-held credit card machine.
Aziz and his four sons were worshipping at the mosque when they heard the loud cracks of gunfire outside the building. "When he see the gun in my hands, I don't know what happened, he dropped the gun and I chased him with my own gun ... I managed to throw the gun on his car and smash the car window, and I could see he was a bit frightened."
Aziz returned to the mosque where he was met by scenes of carnage. Dead bodies were strewn around the mosque, among them his close friends.
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