Osama Adnan, 37

Hazim Al-Umari, last spoke to their son on Thursday night. They fear he is among the dead at the Al Noor mosque where he regularly attends Friday prayers. The family immigrated to New Zealand from the United Arab Emirates in 1997. AlUmari worked in the tourism industry until he lost his job recently. Adnan is of Egyptian origin and among the missing. His colleague tweeted an appeal and said he hoped Adnan would “show up soon” and make a “full recovery”.

Kamel Darwish, 39

Zuhair Darwish was standing at the Deans Ave cordon by the Al Noor mosque on Friday pleading for any information about his brother,

Amjad Hamid, 57

The heart doctor from Hawera Hospital hasn’t been seen since Friday and his family believe he is dead. His wife, Hanan, said she and her husband emigrated to Christchurch from Palestine 23 years ago. “It’s terrible . . . we were hoping to find a better future for us and for the children we were planning to have.” She described her 57-year-old husband as a “very kind man”, but struggled to say more. The elder of the couple’s two sons, 22-year-old Husam Hamid, said “he was most likely to have been in the Deans Ave mosque as he mostly goes to that one . . . we are presuming that he is dead, but we don’t know”. According to his LinkedIn profile, Hamid was a consultant in cardiorespiratory integrated specialist services at Canterbury District Health Board for