A woman who was driving by one of the mosques as the deadly New Zealand shooting unfolded said bodies were “falling” around her car when she stopped to help.

The 66-year-old had tears in her eyes as she recalled the harrowing scene outside Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand.

“I heard and saw what I thought were firecrackers and I saw young fellas running down the street,” she said in a video on BBC News. “And then all of a sudden, it got quite violent and I said, ‘No, those aren’t firecrackers,’ and they started falling. One fell to the left of my car and one fell to the right.”

The woman pulled over and immediately ducked as more shots came at her.

“Apparently, a bullet went sailing over my car and struck the one in the back,” she said.

At one point, she managed to open both her driver and passenger side doors for extra cover as she rushed to help a man who was bleeding from a gunshot wound.

“The worst thing was, we could hear the ambulances but they couldn’t get to us,” she said through tears.

One driver put three victims in his car and sped off to the hospital, she recalled.

Bodies were strewn everywhere.

“The other guy I could see, he was in bad shape. I couldn’t get to him because that was where directly the gunfire was coming from,” she said.

The man the woman was helping was frantically trying to get his wife on the phone.

“I said to her, ‘Your husband’s been shot inside the mosque.’ I said, ‘Don’t come here … please go to the hospital and wait for him.'”

She then told the wounded man to keep fighting for his life.

“I kept talking to him and telling him that she was at the hospital and he wasn’t to give up,” she said. “The poor guy across the road passed away.”

The woman broke down in tears as she said, “I’m 66. I never thought in my life I’d see something like this. Not in New Zealand.”

Gunman Brenton Tarrant, 28, shot and killed 41 worshipers at Masjid Al Noor and slaughtered another seven a few miles away at Linwood Masjid Mosque. One other person died at the hospital.

In a creepy manifesto, he railed against Muslims, calling them a “large group of invaders” who “seek to occupy my peoples lands and ethnically replace my own people [sic].”