The stories of terrorist attacks are not without heroes who are willing to sacrifice themselves to save others. This is what happened in the attack on the Linewood Mosque in Christchurch by the New Zealand Suicide.
In an interview with Sky News, 48-year-old mosque servant Abdul Aziz said he heard gunshots during Friday prayers, leaving his family, including four children, inside the Lynnwood Islamic Center and ran out to confront the terrorist Trenton Tarrant in a stand the cars.
He explained that his children asked him to stay inside the center and not go out, he replied by saying: "Go, my friends to the inside, I will be fine."
Bravely, Abdul Aziz took off and picked up the credit card machine he had before him on the table to use as a weapon before he saw two bodies near the corridor.
At the same time, Abdul Aziz saw the attacker as he headed for his car to get another machinegun. The card reader threw it at him, but the attacker managed to get another weapon and started shooting at him before he could get into the cars.
At that moment, Abdul Aziz picked up the submachine gun left by the murderer and then chased him as the attacker returned to his car for a second time to get another weapon.
"I used to shout at the attacker and say, ´Come here, come here,´" Abdul Aziz told Sky News. "I tried to draw his attention to me. I did not want to go inside the mosque."
After the armed man returned to his car, Abdul Aziz threw his gun at the terrorist and smashed the car window.
This caused Tarant to be "shocked" as described by Abdul Aziz, pointing out that the gunman "cursed him and went away."
When Abdul Aziz returned to the mosque, he found out that many of his colleagues and friends had been shot.
In the eyes of many, Abdel Aziz became a hero to confront the courage of the armed man. The interim imam of the mosque, Latif Albi, said: "Abdel Aziz (the gunman) came to him and so we managed to escape. Otherwise, if he could enter the mosque, .
"I do not think I am a hero because if I were not there, someone else might have done what I did," Abdul Aziz said. "It´s about humanity ... helping people."
In the mosque of the Lynnwood Islamic Center, one of the two mosques in Christchurch, seven people were killed and others wounded.
