RIST CHURCH, New Zealand
—Abdul Aziz was praying with his four sons in the Linwood Mosque when he heard the gun shots. Rather than run from the noise, he ran toward it, grabbed the first thing he could find— a credit card machine—and flung it at the attacker.
The man dropped a shotgun, and Mr. Aziz picked it up. “I pulled the trigger, and there was nothing,” he recalled. The gun man ran to his car, where he had other weapons, and Mr. Aziz followed, throwing the shotgun at the vehicle and shattering a window.
Mr. Aziz’sactions, which he and others described in interviews, may have prompted the gun man to speed away rather than return to kill more people. Minutes later, two police officers from another town who were in the area rammed the suspect’s car into a curb and took him into custody, ending the worst mass murder in New Zealand’s modern history.
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“It absolutely was his intention to continue with his attack,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after the arrest of Brenton Tarrant, 28, a former persona ltrainer fromAustralia who allegedly distributed a manifesto of white extremist hatred minutes before the rampage.
Answer in Portuguese
a) What was Abdul Aziz doing when He heard the shots?
b) What actions did he perform that may have prevented more people from being killed at Linwood Mosque?