As soon as they heard gunfire, the students “went straight to business,” the teacher’s assistant said. “They held it together.”

The complex is home to the Al Rashid school where crowds of young students were seen being evacuated on Monday following reports of the shooting.

A total of five people including two teenaged gunmen have been killed after an active shooter situation at a San Diego mosque drew a massive police presence.

"They told us to put our hands up and form a big line," the boy said as he saw another group of younger students forming line to get evacuated.

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The firearms the shooters, aged 17 and 18, used in the fatal rampage were registered to one of their parents

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Three people killed by two shooters at a San Diego mosque were beloved pillars of the community and died while saving 140 children in the building at the time of the attack,…

The security guard, Amin Abdullah, 51, immediately recognized the two youths as a threat and opened fire on them as they ran past him outside the mosque

As soon as they heard gunfire, the students “went straight to business,” the teacher’s assistant said. “They held it together.”

Community members said they're grateful to the three men who jumped into action to help save the nearly 140 schoolchildren at the mosque.

The deaths of three people, hailed as heroes, at the Islamic Center of San Diego underscored the threats facing mosques and other houses of worship.