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The Takanini BurgerFuel car crash

  1. Update 2 of 2LatestDay 29 hours later

    Takanini crash families want three victims brought home to India

    Community representatives say relatives want all three bodies returned to India. No repatriation date has been announced, while identification and crash questions remain unresolved.

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    Earliest sourceNZ Herald

    What changed

    • When we reported on the Takanini BurgerFuel crash on November 10, the devastating outline was established: all three people in the car had died, while employees inside the restaurant escaped injury. The next part of the story concerns the families waiting to bring them home. Community representatives now say relatives want all three bodies returned to India and that they are working to honour those wishes.

  2. Update 1 of 2Day 2

    Three killed as car hits Takanini BurgerFuel with staff still inside

    Employees were cleaning up after closing when the car struck the South Auckland restaurant. Nobody inside was injured; identification of the three occupants and the crash investigation remain unresolved.

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    Earliest source1news.co.nz

    What we knew first

    • Employees were still cleaning up inside BurgerFuel Takanini when a car struck the restaurant. It had closed to customers, but their working night was not over. None of them was injured; all three people in the car died at the scene.

Who reported

Who reported

16 outlets · 38 sources

7 of 16 had reported by this moment

Who's involved

Who's involved

Organizations

  • BurgerFuelNew Zealand chain of burger restaurants
  • New Zealand Policenational police force of New Zealand
  • Supreme Sikh Society of New ZealandSikh organization in New Zealand

Places

  • Takanini
  • India
Takanini crash families want three victims brought home to India