He said the shooter stood at the door and shot from there. Syed Ahmed said the main door is located in the center of the mosque, which is just a small, two-bedroom house. People started screaming and everybody got out of the prayer." "Then suddenly he came towards the main door. "We kept praying for the first two or three shots," Syed Ahmed, who was in the front row of the mosque, told BuzzFeed News on Saturday morning. Mazharuddin Syed Ahmed, 47, said he immediately recognized it was gunshots directly outside the mosque because of the loud noise, which was accompanied by screams. At Linwood Avenue, seven people were killed. The shootings at two nearby mosques - Linwood Avenue and Al Noor - in Christchurch, New Zealand, left 49 people dead during Friday prayers. A survivor of the Christchurch mosque shootings recounted how he continued to pray after first hearing gunshots outside the Linwood Avenue mosque.
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