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Nineteen-year-old Husna Ahmed arrived in New Zealand from Bangladesh on her wedding day. Her future husband, Farid, was waiting to meet her. They married a few hours after that, as their families had agreed.

Twenty-five years later, the life they had built together was torn apart at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch. A gunman walked into the building and fired on worshippers last Friday as they were praying.

Husna came across the gunman as he was coming out of the mosque. The gunman shot her on the footpath. After she fell, he fired two more shots and killed her.

Farid was talking to a friend and was delayed in joining worshippers at his usual place at the front of the mosque. Instead, he prayed in a small side room. Farid was able to escape when he heard the shooting begin.

When the gunman left, he returned to find many of his friends and community members dead. He provided comfort to those who were dying. He found out about his wife's death when a police official he knew called another family member as they waited outside the mosque.

A total of 50 people were killed in the attack at Al Noor and another mosque in Christchurch. Most victims were migrants or refugees from countries including Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Syria, Turkey, Somalia and Afghanistan.

Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi diplomat in New Zealand. He told the Reuters news service that Husna was one of five members of a growing but closely connected Bangladeshi community killed.

He added that four others were wounded. Members of the Bangladesh cricket team, which was in town for a test match against New Zealand, narrowly avoided harm.

They arrived at the Al Noor mosque just after the shooting took place. Witnesses of the attack told Farid that Husna, instead of hiding, helped other women and children inside the mosque.

She also ran to the front of the building to look for Farid. Farid said, She's such a person who always put other people first and she was even not afraid to give her life saving other people.