18 Mar 2019

Islamic leaders head to Christchurch to help with burials

From Morning Report, 7:50 am on 18 March 2019

Families of the Christchurch mosque victims will have the help of about 50 experts in Islamic funeral and burial rites to prepare the loved ones bodies. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has promised that all the bodies of those killed would be released to them by Wednesday. Muslim community leaders, Christchurch council workers and police liasion officers have all been making preparations so the victims can be buried with respect and dignity as soon as that happens.