‘My special little one’: A Christchurch father’s message to slain son vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
John Milne sits on his bed and sobs as he pens an anguished letter to his murdered teenage son Sayyad — one of 50 people killed in the Christchurch massacre.
In the aftermath of Friday’s attack, AFP photographer Anthony Wallace has kept a whiteboard in his backpack and asked Christchurch residents to write whatever they want on it.“I love New Zealand. We stand united”, wrote Zeynia Endrise, whose husband Abbas had to fight for his life after being shot in his right lung.
Milne’s letter to Sayyad, however, takes up most of the whiteboard, which he is now in possession of. Describing what he knew about his son’s death he said: “Just taken out, clunk. He fell and hit the floor and just died, probably suffering for a little while. And we got reports, from people who fled there, that they last saw him lying on the floor of the mosque with all the bodies.”
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