Piles Of Flowers Are Growing Around Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH — As dusk fell over the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Saturday, people laid flowers at roadblocks near the two mosques where the country's worst mass shooting since 1943 had unfolded.At the juncture of Riccarton Road and Deans Avenue, a growing pile of flowers sat under a street post. Police tape and several officers sealed off access to the Al Noor mosque, a few hundreds metres down the road, where 41 people were killed.
Between the two mosques, more people gathered at Christchurch's Royal Botanic Gardens. Peaceful messages were chalked onto the pavement – like"united we stand" and"you are loved". The scent of flowers wafted as they mounted up along a fence.At the Deans Avenue gathering, a steady stream of people came to lay flowers and look on silently for a few minutes, many with tears in their eyes.
"We are Ethiopian Christians," he told BuzzFeed News."But it doesn’t matter whatever you believe, it’s yours. It’s a free county, everyone can believe whatever they want. This is not fair, at all.""We just came here to respect those who lost their lives. It can be me, or anyone," he said."We should be together. The bond has to be strong enough so hopefully we can defeat this kind of act.
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