Assoc Prof Zurinawati Mohyi, a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in Puncak Alam, was on a working trip to a university in Thailand when she was informed by a colleague that her husband, Nazril Hisham Omar, 46, was injured in the shootings.

“I’m not sure what my husband’s condition is. I just heard that he was injured. I was there in New Zealand and just returned home on Tuesday,” Zurinawati, who is with UiTM’s Hotel and Tourism Management Faculty, told Bernama yesterday.

She said Nazril and their three schoolgoing children – Muhammad Haqiem Daniel, 18, Muhammad Hazieq Daniel, 14, and Muhammad Hazriq Daniel, 10 – had been living in Christchurch for the past two months.

“A fellow lecturer on the working trip with me received a phone call about the incident at about 10am (Thai time).

“I was relieved to find out that my children were safe and back home from school but am upset at not knowing the condition of my husband,” she said.

Zurinawati said one of her sons tried calling his father on his cellphone and a nurse responded to say he was in hospital.

“So, I’m really not sure what my husband’s condition is right now,” she said.

Zurinawati said she hoped to return here and leave with her eldest son, Muhammad Haiqal Daniel, 20, to New Zealand today.

Wisma Putra had earlier confirmed that two Malaysians – Mohd Tarmizi Shuib and Rahimi Ahmad – were injured in the shootings.

Forty-nine people were killed and 48 injured when a gunman sprayed bullets on worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch.

This morning, Australian-born Brenton Tarrant, 28, was charged in the Christchurch District Court with murder.