Christchurch Schools

The bodies of victims from New Zealand's mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch's Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday - the first burials of the 50 victims.

Christchurch Mosque Shooting: On Friday night, best friends and New York University students Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf attended a vigil at their school's Islamic Center for the victims of the New Zealand mosque massacre.

That moment, when I looked down into my phone to read the text that had just popped up, is still frozen in my head - "All Chch schools are on lockdown, do not come to school" instructed the automatically generated message from a short code.

The bodies of victims from New Zealand's mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch's Memorial Park Cemetery on Wednesday - the first burials of the 50 victims.

Christchurch Mosque Shooting: On Friday night, best friends and New York University students Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf attended a vigil at their school's Islamic Center for the victims of the New Zealand mosque massacre.

That moment, when I looked down into my phone to read the text that had just popped up, is still frozen in my head - "All Chch schools are on lockdown, do not come to school" instructed the automatically generated message from a short code.