2 Aug 2022

Mosque attack survivor home after Mecca trip

From Morning Report, 6:15 am on 2 August 2022

A Christchurch mosque attack survivor is relieved to be home after testing positive for Covid while he was in Mecca for the Hajj.

A group of sixty attack survivors and their families travelled to Mecca for the annual pilgrimage, after being invited by the Saudi Arabian king.

Farid Ahmed lost his wife Husna when she protected him in the attack, and he says this trip was a chance to carry her memory.

He's in a wheelchair from a previous accident, and told reporter Tessa Guest it's the most physically strained he's been for 24 years.