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The story behind the shirtless man at the mosque

Isaac Davison
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Senior Reporter, Health·NZ Herald·
5 mins to read

It was one of the defining photographs of the Christchurch mosque shootings. A shirtless man on a bench in Hagley Park, crying into his mobile phone. This is the story behind it.

When Rami Al got a phone call that there had been a shooting at his mosque in Christchurch, he ran straight out the front door, shirtless, shoeless and his phone fixed to his ear.

His father was in the Masjid Al-Noor for Friday prayers.

Al, 29, had planned

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