Takanini BurgerFuel crash: Three victims killed in South Auckland named

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Newlyweds Sukhdeep Singh and Sukhvir Kaur and their brother-in-law Gurpreet Singh have been named as the three members of a Punjabi family killed in the Takanini BurgerFuel crash.…

Newlyweds Sukhdeep Singh and Sukhvir Kaur and their brother-in-law Gurpreet Singh have been named as the three members of a Punjabi family killed in the Takanini BurgerFuel crash.

Sukhdeep Singh, 33, had lived in New Zealand for more than seven years and ran an NZ Post courier operation, the Supreme Sikh Society of New Zealand said this evening.

His wife, Sukhvir Kaur, 29, had arrived in the country about six months ago, Supreme Sikh Society and Central Sikh Association president Daljit Singh previously told the Herald.

Their brother-in-law, Gurpreet Singh, 38, had lived in New Zealand for three years and drove an NZ Post courier van, the society said.

The family had been returning home from Diwali celebrations at a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship and assembly, in Manurewa when the car they were travelling in crashed into the BurgerFuel restaurant about 10.15pm on Sunday.

The restaurant was closed and no one inside was injured. All three occupants of the car died at the scene.

Singh previously told the Herald the victims were a husband and wife who had married about six months earlier, and their brother-in-law.

“The communities are in great shock because this is a huge tragedy that happened here in Auckland,” he said.

He said one victim was a self-employed businessman “well-established” in New Zealand.

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