Christchurch has begun to bury its dead as a diplomatic row erupts over "highly offensive" comments by Turkey's president about the terror attack on mosques in the New Zealand city.
Khaled Mustafa and his 15-year-old son Hamza were the first to be buried on Wednesday, only months after moving to Christchurch to escape the Syrian civil war.
Younger son Zaid, 13, came from hospital in a wheelchair, still nursing gunshot wounds to his legs to bid a painful farewell to his father and brother, crying he didn't want to be left alone.
By the end of the day four more of the 50 victims of last week's mosque massacre were laid to rest.
So rapid in succession were the burials, some mourners paying respects to one person had to run from the burial plots to a marquee across the lawn in time to pray for the next.
With Islamic custom calling for funerals to be arranged quickly - usually within a day of death - police have faced frustration from families, but have argued the process must be thorough.
Thirty victims had been formally identified by Wednesday afternoon and could be returned shortly, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
"By the end of Wednesday, we should have completed the majority of those identifications," Commissioner Bush told reporters in Christchurch.
"I have to say some of those victims will take a little longer."
Of the 50 injured 29 remained in hospital and another 8 were still critically hurt.
Ardern returned to Christchurch on Wednesday to meet emergency workers and pupils at Cashmere High School, which lost two students and a former student in the attacks.
"It is OK to grieve. It is OK to ask for help ... You have the support of all New Zealanders," she told the students.
Asked by one pupil how she was doing, Ardern replied: "Thank you for asking. I'm very sad."
She later announced there would a national two-minute silence on Friday, to mark a week since the attack.
Meanwhile, Australians planning to travel to Turkey for Anzac Day are being urged to exercise caution after incendiary comments by the country's president.
A diplomatic row has erupted after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said any Australian who came to Turkey with anti-Muslim sentiments would be sent back in a coffin "like your grandfathers were" during the Gallipoli campaign.
Erdogan used a pre-election political rally to play parts of a video of the shooting which the gunman live-streamed to Facebook despite New Zealand's request the distressing and violent footage not be distributed.
Politicians on both side of the Tasman have taken offence.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called in the Turkish ambassador to make Australia's views clear.
"Remarks have been made by the Turkish President Erdogan that I consider highly offensive to Australians, and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment," Mr Morrison said.
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters will confront Turkey when he attends a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation as an observer there next week.
"Our deputy prime minister will be confronting those comments in Turkey," Ardern told reporters on Wednesday.
Ardern also said she was taking seriously a reported call for retaliation from Islamic State over the terror attack in Christchurch.
A spokesman for the jihadist group, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, broke a six-month silence to say last week's attack on the mosques "should incite the supporters of the caliphate to avenge their religion", the New York Times reports.
Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28, was charged with one count of murder on Saturday in relation to the shootings.
He's likely to face further charges.
Police on Wednesday revealed they believed the attacker had been planning to go to a third mosque.
"We strongly believe we stopped him on the way to a further attack, so lives were saved," Bush said.
The New Zealand government is preparing to announce new firearms restrictions in the coming days following the massacre.
