We were scared and crying - Bangladeshi cricketers about Christchurch Al-Noor Masjid Incident

Kashif Rafiq

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
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نیوزی لینڈ کے شہر کرائسٹ چرچ میں ہونے والے دہشتگردی کے واقعے پر بنگلہ دیشی کھلاڑیوں کا کہنا ہے کہ انہوں نے جو دیکھا وہ کسی فلم کا منظر لگتا تھا، 3 منٹ پہلے بھی مسجد پہنچے ہوتے تو بچ نکلنا ناممکن تھا۔

بنگلہ دیشی کرکٹ ٹیم کے منیجر خالد مشہود نے کہا کہ کرائسٹ چرچ حملے کے وقت وہ اوراُن کے ساتھی کھلاڑی مسجد سے صرف 50 گز کے فاصلے پر تھے،اگر 3 منٹ پہلے بھی مسجد پہنچے ہوتے تواُن کا بچ نکلنا ناممکن تھا۔ معمولی سا فاصلہ اُن کی جان بچانے کا باعث بن گیا۔



خالد مشہود نے کہا کہ انہوں نے جو دیکھا وہ کسی فلم کا منظر لگتا تھاجبکہ کچھ کھلاڑی وہ منظر دیکھ کر رو پڑے۔

بنگلہ دیشی کرکٹ ٹیم کے منیجر خالد مشہود نے مزید کہا کہ ٹیم کے 17 افراد 8 سے 10 منٹ تک بس میں اپنا سر نیچے کیے بیٹھے رہے تاکہ کوئی گولی انہیں نہ لگ جائے۔پھر سب نے مل کر فیصلہ کیا کہ شوٹر انہیں نشانہ بنا سکتا ہے، بہتر ہے کہ یہاں سے بھاگ نکلیں۔

کرکٹ بورڈ کے سربراہ نظم الحسن نے کہا کہ مسجد جاتے وقت بنگلہ دیشی ٹیم کے ساتھ کوئی سیکیورٹی اہلکار نہیں تھا۔

Following the horrific shooting incident in Christchurch on Friday after which the third Test between New Zealand and Bangladesh was called off, Mominul Haque shared the ordeal the team went through with Cricbuzz.

We came out after lunch. We were supposed to do have training at 2:00 PM and so we were expected to reach at 1:30. We were slightly late because of Riyad [Mahmudullah] bhai's press conference. Due to the presser we came out after 10 minutes. Mushfiqur bhai, Taijul and I usually at times play football among us in the dressing room, probably we got delayed by one or two minutes due to that too. When we reached the Mosque we saw everyone lying down. A woman came out talking on the phone insisting us not to go inside. Another woman from the car did the same and shouted 'don't go inside someone is shooting'. We understood the gravity of the incident.

We were sitting inside the bus for around five to ten minutes. At that point Pilot bhai [manager] was talking with someone on the phone. Tamim bhai came from behind and we asked the driver to open the window we saw several bodies scattered all around. We decided to open the back door of the bus and came back to the ground through the park. Had we reached five minutes earlier we would have been inside the mosque and everyone would have been finished. It is the grace of almighty that we reached there five minutes later.


Had we got inside the mosque then we would have sat in the back row and that man wouldn't have kept any of us alive. He just started shooting without sparing anyone, just go through the video of the incident. We were so scared and we started crying inside the bus. While we were in the midst of the crisis, we asked the driver to go backwards but he denied saying that it is not possible as that wasn't instructed. Probably I was on the second or third row along with Mushfiqur bhai. We saw from the bus everyone coming out of the mosque and lying down on the floor. Their body was covered with blood. We had prayed in the same mosque earlier when we were on Christchurch.

Yesterday Riad bhai asked whether we would have our lunch after the prayer or coming back from the prayer. At that point we decided that as the practice is scheduled after Jumma prayer we would have lunch after returning from the mosque. But we somehow altered that plan and went to the mosque after completing the lunch and probably we were saved due to it. I cannot express in words how scared we were at that point of time. You cannot imagine what it takes to see such horrendous incidents in front of your own eyes.

We were crying just being afraid. Basically we are all alive due to that woman from the car who requested us not to go anywhere. Initially when the first woman came out and warned us, we thought she was ill because we never believed anything like that can happen in New Zealand but when the woman from the car through the window cautioned us saying that her car also got hit by a bullet we understood we were in for hard times.

 

zain10

Senator (1k+ posts)
آفرین ہے سری لنکن ٹیم پر، لاہور میں دہشت گردوں نے ان پر ڈائریکٹ اَٹیک کیا تھا مگر وہ ان بنگالیوں کے طرح رونے کے بجائے ثابت قدمی سے حالات کا مقابلہ کرتے ہوئے بمعہ بس ڈرائیور کے اپنی جانیں بچائیں

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Nightcrawl

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
آفرین ہے سری لنکن ٹیم پر، لاہور میں دہشت گردوں ان پر ڈائریکٹ اَٹیک کیا تھا مگر وہ ان بنگالیوں کے طرح رونے کے بجائے ثابت قدمی سے حالات کا مقابلہ کرتے ہوئے بمعہ بس ڈرائیور کے اپنی جانیں بچائیں

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They're sensitive
 

kakamuna420

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
بنگالی کرکٹ ٹیم سیکوریٹی کو ایشو بنا کر پاکستان نہی آ رہی،نیوزی لینڈ میں کھوتی کے بچے مرتے مرتے بچے ہیں
These cricketers go to hell. I don't want to see their faces and their cricket ever. Women were dying and these sissy people ran away. Get lost!
 

Steyn

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
بنگالی کرکٹ ٹیم سیکوریٹی کو ایشو بنا کر پاکستان نہی آ رہی،نیوزی لینڈ میں کھوتی کے بچے مرتے مرتے بچے ہیں

Pakistan has a history of suicide bombings. New Zealand doesn't have such history.

Why not use some logic? If a terrorist attack happens in America and one in Iraq, you would still feel safe in America right?
 

AdamA

Senator (1k+ posts)
Pakistan has a history of suicide bombings. New Zealand doesn't have such history.

Why not use some logic? If a terrorist attack happens in America and one in Iraq, you would still feel safe in America right?

Your statement is illogical, we are not accustomed to violence on a daily basis. Plenty of mass shooting in US. The only time we will run if we are in trouble with law ? I and my family had the unfortunate experience of being robbed at gunpoint. Let's say we didn't drop our load ? We Pakistanis are just 'different'. It's about Emaan.
 

Steyn

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Your statement is illogical, we are not accustomed to violence on a daily basis. Plenty of mass shooting in US. The only time we will run if we are in trouble with law ? I and my family had the unfortunate experience of being robbed at gunpoint. Let's say we didn't drop our load ? We Pakistanis are just 'different'. It's about Emaan.

You're not accustomed to it, we Pakistanis are. War on terror happened in Pakistan not US.

Your government doesn't kill innocent civilians in broad daylight and then call them ISIS terrorists to cover up, our government does.

You can't fool the world.
 

AdamA

Senator (1k+ posts)
You're not accustomed to it, we Pakistanis are. War on terror happened in Pakistan not US.

Your government doesn't kill innocent civilians in broad daylight and then call them ISIS terrorists to cover up, our government does.

You can't fool the world.

I'm speaking from a Pakistani perspective.
 

free_soul

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
Pakistan has a history of suicide bombings. New Zealand doesn't have such history.

Why not use some logic? If a terrorist attack happens in America and one in Iraq, you would still feel safe in America right?
Point here I am trying to make is : YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM DEATH NO MATTER HOW SAFE YOU FEEL.......BTW Bangladesh Team is not touring Pakistan due to Politics and not for security.....
 

Steyn

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Point here I am trying to make is : YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FROM DEATH NO MATTER HOW SAFE YOU FEEL.......BTW Bangladesh Team is not touring Pakistan due to Politics and not for security.....

That's not the point. He was denying the thousands of lives we lost, the war on terror that happened in Pakistan because he lives in a rich area of Islamabad?

I am from KPK, i was close to two bomb blasts and didn't die because my time hadn't come.

And this asshole has the audacity to deny all that and tell me nothing happened? He has the nerve to piss on the victims of these bomb blasts, just last year during election there were bomb blasts that shook the country.

The whole world saw this and that's why foreign people are scared.
 

AdamA

Senator (1k+ posts)
That's not the point. He was denying the thousands of lives we lost, the war on terror that happened in Pakistan because he lives in a rich area of Islamabad?

I am from KPK, i was close to two bomb blasts and didn't die because my time hadn't come.

And this asshole has the audacity to deny all that and tell me nothing happened? He has the nerve to piss on the victims of these bomb blasts, just last year during election there were bomb blasts that shook the country.

The whole world saw this and that's why foreign people are scared.

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.