Meet Alabi Zirullah, The HERO Imam who saved dozens of lives in New Zealand’s shootings.

Alabi Lateef Zirullah was leading prayers at Linwood mosque in Christchurch when Brenton Tarrant started shooting, killing six people outside.

In photos that where shared online, Imam Alabi Lateef Zirullah is seen all covered in blood after warning worshippers to take cover during the Christchurch Mosque attack.

Mr Zirullah, who was later pictured leaving the mosque in blood-soaked robes, said: “When I saw those Muslims shot dead I just told our brothers, ‘Go down! Go down! Somebody has just shot our brothers outside the masjid.’

“No one listened to me until unfortunately he came from behind and he shot one of our brothers [in] the head through the window. “He saw him standing and shot him [through] the window. When glass got broken and the brother fell down, everyone realised to go down.”

Mr Zirullah then rushed outside with worshipper Abdul Aziz, who picked up a credit card machine, yelling “come here”. Mr Aziz hurled the machine at Tarrant, then found one of his discarded weapons and threw that “like an arrow”, chasing the gunman away.

Zirullah however, refused to be called a Hero saying that he had just been doing God’s will. Survivors have said they owe their lives to the Manchester City fan, a Nigerian who moved to New Zealand in 2016.

“Everyone knows me from the blood-stained photo but that’s not me. I don’t want to be associated with bloodshed,” said the dad of one.

“The heroes are those people who passed away, not me.But I thank God Almighty for using me to save the few lives that I could.”