A survivor of the mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, last Friday said he learned of his brother's death from the gunman's livestream of the shooting.Ramzan Ali said he was able to escape the Al Noor mosque but learned that his brother died when he saw his body in the video footage.Ali is thought to be the last person to get out of the Al Noor mosque, where 41 people were killed.A livestream of the shooting was posted to Facebook. The platform and other tech companies have been battling to delete copies of the footage.A survivor in the New Zealand mosque shootings said he learned about his younger brother'sdeath in the attack by watching the gunman's livestream.Ramzan Ali told The New Zealand Herald that he was able to hide under a bench and escape out of a window when the gunman entered the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch. But his brother Ashraf Ali, 40, was still inside.Ali looked for news of his brother outside the mosque, but he was only able to confirm his brother's death by watching a livestream of the gunman's attack, which he posted on Facebook, spread to other social media platforms, and was reposted by a number of news sites.It's not clear where Ali watched the livestream.Read more: Facebook says no one reported the New Zealand mosque shootings live video. But a reporter says he raised the alarm mid-attack.Ali told the Herald that he recognized his brother, lying on a pile of dead bodies, from his grey hair and his rugby jersey from Fiji, their home country."That's him," Ali said. "Straight away I knew." He said he was 95% certain that his brother was dead, but "5% in me was saying he could have survived."Forty-one people were killed in the Al Noor mosque, and seven were killed in the Linwood mosque, located 3-1/2 miles away, last Friday.Ali is thought to be the last person to get out of the Al Noor mosque alive. He was photographed on the phone with bloodstained clothing as he waited outside the mosque for news of his brother.Ali said his brother had to sit on a bench at the back of the room because he had a sore hip, so was more exposed to the gunfire. He had arrived in the country six days earlier for a yearly visit to his brother.Ashraf Ali was the youngest of nine children in the family, and he had a daughter in Melbourne, the Herald reported.He was the owner of a taxi company and a skilled soccer player, Ramzan Ali said."He will always be with me," Ali said. "I will never be able to forget him."Read more: Here's what we know about the victims of the mosque mass shootings in New Zealand that killed at least 50 peopleAshraf's body had not been released to the family as of Tuesday, according to the Herald.The killer streamed the shootings live on Facebook, leaving tech companies scramblingBrenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian identified as the suspected shooter, posted a livestream of himself carrying out the attacks on Facebook.The footage was taken at the Al Noor mosque. No footage of the Linwood mosque was shared.Police had urged people not to share the footage, which appears to have been taken from a camera on a helmet or attached to the shooter's head.Facebook removed the video and said it deleted 1.5 million videos of the attack from its platform within 24 hours. It said it blocked 1.2 million videos while they were being uploadedmeaning 300,000 videos of the shootings did appear on the platform at some point.New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she planned to take up the issue of the livestream with Facebook.The footage also spread quickly to other platforms, including Twitter and YouTube, leaving multiple tech firms scrambling to keep it from appearing on their sites.News outlets are also in hot water for broadcasting the footage. Sky News Australia was dropped by New Zealand's biggest satellite television provider after it aired the footage.A spokesperson for Sky News Australia told Business Insider in an email that its use of the footage was in line with other broadcasters."Sky News Australia in line with other broadcasters ran heavily edited footage that did not show vision inside the mosque, the shootings or the victims," it said.Read more about the New Zealand terror attacks:New Zealand quickly moves to reform gun laws after mosque massacre that killed 50, and promises detailed proposals within 10 daysA white nationalist conspiracy theory was at the heart of the New Zealand shooting. This isn't the first time it's been associated with terror attacks.This timeline of the Christchurch mosque terror attacks shows how New Zealand's deadliest shooting unfoldedA man is being hailed as a hero for facing off with the Christchurch mosque gunman and likely saving livesJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: What El Chapo is really like, according to the wife of one his closest henchman
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