By Brittany Chain For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press
Published: 05:51 GMT, 18 March 2019 | Updated: 06:00 GMT, 18 March 2019
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An ambulance worker who first responded to the horror shooting at a mosque in Christchurch has tearfully spoken about seeing blood seeping from the building's front door.
Ambulance technician Paul Bennett said nothing prepared him for the scene he confronted on Friday when he arrived at the Al Noor Mosque after a Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28, allegedly roamed the mosque, executing those there for Friday prayers.
Mr Bennett said by the time he arrived 'there was a river of blood coming out of the mosque... it was literally flowing off the terracotta tiles'.
He said he and his colleagues were forced to step over the bodies of the dead to find victims who had survived the massacre.
An ambulance worker who responded to the horror shooting at a mosque in Christchurch has tearfully spoken about what he saw
'We tried to get our stretcher into the mosque but we couldn't because there were fatalities in the way. We ended up having to lift the