The dreadful mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch has shaken the world. People and communities from all across the globe are forward to help. The Sikh community in New Zealand has offered its services to oversee the funeral arrangements for the 50 killed in the terror attack.

The Guru Nanak Community Kitchen, an Auckland based NGO, wrote on Facebook, "We have been asked and informed by one of the Muslim representatives in Akld that the Muslim community in Christchurch need people for sewa".

The post urged people to come out and help with washing of bodies, transportation to cemetery, digging graves and organising Langar.

The coummnity will also be setting up a camp for the victims’ families that would offer free food and transportation in Christchurch along with temporary shelter, emergency clothing, blood donation and financial help with repatriation and/or funeral services.

People are praising the community for its initiative on social media.

Hero nailed

One man at the second mosque in the suburb of Linwood was being hailed for distracting and confronting the shooter, preventing further deaths. Abdul Aziz, 48, told media he heard shooting and ran outside the mosque, shouting at the gunman and drawing him away from the building, the Newshub website reported.

Aziz, originally from Afghanistan, said he picked up one of the gunman's discarded weapons and threatened the man, who drove off. Police then rammed the gunman's vehicle and arrested him.