Businesses that serve Muslim community in Christchurch closing in wake of massacre

One supermarket has shut and another is struggling to stay viable

One supermarket that served the Muslim community in Christchurch has been forced to close and the other is facing an uncertain future amid plummeting sales, 10 months after the deadly terrorist attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city.

Those running the stores say the drop in business followed the deaths of breadwinners from dozens of families in the gunman’s attack on 15 March, in which 51 people – many of them men with families – were killed and dozens more injured.

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