Dozens of cars and a lone food truck sit parked behind the Al Noor mosque - with no one to drive them home.
This is the haunting image at the scene of Christchurch's mosque massacre, where a gunman killed 50 people on Friday and injured dozens more.
Residents who live close by the mosque where Australian-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, allegedly opened fire said it was a chilling reminder of the tragedy seeing the cars left there three days on.
They know many owners will never return to collect them.
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The carpark behind the Al Noor mosque remains crowded three days after Australian-born gunman Brenton Harrison Tarrant allegedly opened fire
More than twenty cars and a lone food truck remain parked behind the mosque three days later - many owners will never return to collect them
Tarrant, 28, originally from Grafton, New South Wales but more recently a resident of Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island, was dressed in a white custody outfit with a black sash around his waist
One local said what happened behind their properties was simply 'horrible'.
Now out their back windows are 'the cars of the dead'.
The neighbour said: 'They have been simply excellent (neighbours), I do want people to know that'.
All bodies have been removed from the mosque, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said authorities were working as fast as they could to allow relatives to bury their dead loved ones in keeping with Islamic custom.
Police outside the Al Noor mosque continued to sweep the street for evidence on Sunday, marking up cars where bullets may have hit or ricocheted.
It comes as workers at a Christchurch cemetery continue the daunting task of digging graves for the murdered.
Workers used heavy machinery to prepare at least a dozen graves at a cemetery on Saturday afternoon, ahead of the unprecedented number of burials.
Three days earlier Tarrant opened fire at the Christchurch mosque on the country's South Island. Pictured is a still from a live-stream of the shooting
Police outside the Al Noor mosque continued to sweep the street for evidence on Sunday, marking up cars where bullets may have hit or ricocheted
The mosque remains a crime scene, but New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern having said she hoped all bodies would be removed by the end of Sunday
Workers used heavy machinery to prepare at least a dozen graves at a Christchurch cemetery on Saturday (pictured) ahead of an unprecedented number of Islamic burials
Islamic custom dictates that the deceased should be buried within 24 hours of their death, meaning workers have had to dig the graves at a rapid rate
They moved swiftly to stay in line with the Islamic custom that dictates the deceased should be buried within 24 hours of their passing.
But local Islamic leaders have admitted they have never seen a burial quite like this.
'They (the community) is in shock, having to sit down and plan 49 funerals,' Dr Zain Ali, an Islamic expert at Auckland University, told Daily Mail Australia.
'They're just coming to terms with the death of these people. A message went out saying "we need help organising this" … people are just not in a frame of mind'.
A Christchurch Council spokesman has confirmed that 'the council is currently in the process of getting plots ready'.
They moved swiftly to stay in line with the Islamic custom that dictates the deceased should be buried within 24 hours of their passing (Pictured: Confirmed victims Haji Daoud Nabi, left, and Naeem Rashid, right)
Police allege that Tarrant began his shooting rampage at the Al Noor Masjidal Mosque in the city's east, before driving across town to the Linwood Masjid Mosque and again opening fire
The local Muslim community is struggling to come to with the scale of the tragedy and their grief is visible everywhere.
In the city hundreds have left floral tributes and written messages on the pavement at the Masjid Al Noor mosque, where the first shooting occurred on Friday afternoon.
One mourner, Nadia Edmond, 18, wept as she laid flowers, saying she and the city's young people would not stand for 'this hatred'.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the incident one of the country's 'darkest days' and said grants of NZD$10,000 would be available to the families of victims to help cover the cost of funerals.
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Main photo article Dozens of cars and a lone food truck sit parked behind the Al Noor mosque – with no one to drive them home.
This is the haunting image at the scene of Christchurch’s mosque massacre, where a gunman killed 50 people on Friday and injured dozens more.
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