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This story is from March 15, 2019

New Zealand mosque shootings: Names of seven people of Indian-origin registered as 'missing'

New Zealand mosque shootings: Names of seven people of Indian-origin registered as 'missing'
HYDERABAD: Names of seven people of Indian origin were registered as missing on a website of the International Committee of the Red Cross in cooperation with National Red Cross and Crescent Societies.
Family members and friends of the missing persons registered the names on the site familylinks.icrc.org. The website is dedicated to people missing in connection with conflicts, natural disasters and migration.
In the section “Restoring contact between people separated by the Christchurch firearms incident”, the names listed as missing included a woman from Kerala, Ansi Karippakulam Alibava, 25, whose last contact was at the mosque where the shooting took place.

Other names were: Arif Vora, 58, Amiv Vora, 29, Farah Ahsan, 30, of Warangal, Mehbook Khokhar, 64, from Gujarat and Musa Patel, 59.
47-year-old Imran Khan was at the Majid Alnoor where the shooting took place. He had spoken to his wife before he left for the mosque.
Two persons registered themselves as “I am alive” and they were Manjinder, 25, and Rajalakshmi, 39.
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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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