Some had barely started, others had already seen more than enough suffering and were grateful for the peace and security they found in New Zealand.

Together their lives were snuffed out by a far right terrorist who targeted them for their faith, shooting them in cold blood at their place of worship, in a country one of them had described as "a slice of paradise".

Daoud Nabi, 71

Daoud Nabi was the first of 50 people to die on what Jacinda Ardern, the country’s Prime Minister, would later call its “darkest day.”