One 16-year-old Australian girl described it like walking into a hideous video game: “It was surreal. The terrible irony is that those who most needed to be protected from this vision - our children and teens - were the first to see the video, shared on the vast network of social media before it was even seen by news sites. It was still available on Facebook today although video taken by the gunman himself has been removed.Īlthough Facebook and Google acted to remove the videos taken by the shooter they had already been shared on social media by countless Australians. The video of utter devastation was posted to Facebook in the hours after the event. Witnesses told the New Zealand Herald the attack went on for 20 minutes. One man cradles the dead body of another man.Ī young man in a grey hoodie is seen clutching his face in horror, slouched against a wall.Īt one point, the camera pans down to show the bullet shells littering the grey carpet.Īn injured man lies on the floor clutching a small child who appears uninjured.Ībout 70 people are believed to have been kneeling in prayer at Linwood when the gunman burst inside. One man’s white button-up shirt is stained by blood another man’s traditional tunic is similarly smeared with blood. In the video, voices call out to each other as men move frantically trying to help each other while others stand still, seemingly in a state of suspended disbelief, unable to process the horror of what has just happened. Police allege the man shot up the Masjid Al Noor mosque before heading across town to complete his deadly rampage at the Linwood Mosque. The harrowing 80-second video, shot on mobile phone and seen by and verified by Storyful, shows the panicked moments after the shooting at the Linwood mosque yesterday.Īustralian man Brenton Tarrant, 28, i s accused of killing 49 people and injuring 48 others in shooting spree across two mosques in the New Zealand city.

The wails of injured and terrified survivors well up as the phone camera pans around the room, taking in not just the haunted and shocked faces of the survivors but the bloodied bodies of the dead.

It is humanity in its rawest, bleakest form. A video taken by a survivor of the Linwood mosque attack shows a room in the minutes after the gunman has left.

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