Your son can’t breathe.. he’s dead
LAD DIES ON CALL TO MUM
A MUM listened to her teen son dying in the New Zealand massacre while he was on the phone to her.
Hamza Mustafa, 16, called his mother Salwa when the gunman burst into the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch.
He killed 50 people aged three to
77 in a rampage live-streamed via a head-mounted camera.
Hamza made the call as he tried to flee with his wounded brother Zaid, 13.
Salwa, whose husband Khaled,
44, was killed, said: “He said: ‘Mum, there’s someone come into the mosque and he’s shooting us.’
“He was running with his brother who had been shot in his leg.
“After that, I heard shooting and he screamed and after that I didn’t hear him. I called: ‘Hamza, Hamza’ and I can hear his little voice and after that it was quiet.’
“Then someone picked up the phone and told me: ‘Your son can’t breathe – I think he’s dead.’”
Salwa, who arrived in New Zealand last July after fleeing war-torn Syria, was at Zaid’s hospital bedside yesterday as he recov- ered after being shot twice.
Three-year-old Mucad Ibrahim is feared to be the youngest victim. Four-year-old Elin Daraghmeh was fighting for life in hospital.
Sayyad Milne, 14, who was killed, was a keen footballer who dreamed of turning professional and becoming an international.
Atta Elayyan, 33, the goalkeeper of New Zealand’s national men’s futsal team, was confirmed dead by the country’s football association.
The Kuwait-born star, an IT expert, had just become a dad.
Shihadeh Nasasrah, 63, spent 10 minutes lying under two dying men as the terrorist – who reloaded seven times – fired.
Armed police arrested Brenton Tarrant who has been charged with murder.
Meanwhile Greater Manchester Police arrested four people over “disgusting” comments about the attack.
A 33-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were detained yesterday on suspicion of racially abusing a taxi driver in Rochdale while a 38-yearold woman from the town was arrested over online comments.
A 24-year-old man from Oldham was arrested on Saturday for malicious communications.