By Emel Oz Gozellik</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Just over half of the victims of last week’s Christchurch terrorist attacks were laid to rest on Friday.</p> <p>Twenty-six worshippers slain in the attacks on two New Zealand mosques found their final resting place at Memorial Park Cemetery.</p> <p>Thousands of people from across the country attended the ceremony and Friday prayers, honoring all 50 people killed in the attacks, reported the New Zealand Herald.</p> <p>The youngest victim of the attacks, 3-year-old Mucad Ibrahim, who was separated from his brother and father when the shooting began, was among those laid to rest.</p> <p>The nation observed two minutes of silence in honor of the terror victims.</p> <p>On the first Friday following the attack, the call to prayer was also broadcast live on New Zealand television and radio.</p> <p>Before the Friday prayers, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern quoted the Prophet Muhammad saying in a traditional hadith: "The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion, and sympathy are just like one body. When any part of the body suffers, the whole body feels pain."</p> <p>"New Zealand mourns with you; we are one," she added.
*Writing by Dilara Hamit
