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'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
In New Zealand !
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/26270448/there-shooting-here-please-save-us
My day began looking for injury updates on Kane Willliamson, BJ Watling, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim.
There was a Test due to start tomorrow and my mind was focused on who
was going to play and who'd be missing out.
Eight hours later, I would be at a friend's house in Christchurch
trying to make sense of the worst terrorist attack in New Zealand's history.
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
1.52pm: I get a call from Tamim Iqbal, one of the senior-most cricketers in the team, as I'm leaving the Hagley Oval.
He's calling me for help. "There's shooting here, please save us."
I first think that he is playing a prank but he hangs up and calls again - this time, his voice starts to crack.
He says that I should call the police as there's a shooting going on inside the mosque where they are about to enter.
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
1.56pm: I start running towards the mosque when I spot the Bangladesh team bus.
There are a few police cars around, and a couple of ambulances.
Some people are standing around, wondering what had happened near that intersection.
But when I look to my right, towards the entrance of a motel, it becomes clear
There's a body on the ground, being attended to by paramedics.
There's blood everywhere
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
2.00pm: I see one man running towards me, crying, and holding his arm.
I keep walking fast towards the bus when I see a line of Bangladesh players running away from the bus.
I cross the road, and as I get close, Ebadot Hossain grabs me by the arm and tells me to run with them.
At this point I still have no idea what actually has happened;
I don't even know if the team was the target of the attack.
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
5.00pm:
The tour is called off by New Zealand Cricket
after consultation with the Bangladesh Cricket Board
and the ICC.
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
"If we had arrived there even five minutes earlier
we would all be killed."[size=4][/size]
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
49 murdered while praying on Jummah
inside the Masjid ~
Allah help us all !
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-15-2019
40 Injured some in critical situation ....
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-16-2019
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/26281240/was-just-matter-30-seconds
The plan was to go to the team hotel after prayers, which is why Shree
(team analyst Shrinivas Chandrasekaran) and Soumya Sarkar :
both are Hindu, were with us.
'There's shooting here, please save us' - ketchim - 03-16-2019
On our way to the airport, we were telling each other that if things had gone wrong by even a little bit
it would have been our dead bodies, not us, going home.
It was just a matter of 30 seconds.