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Article: TAXI DRIVER SLAIN
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- December 7, 2008
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Police hunt two passengers suspected of Christchurch stabbing. --
------------------ THE TAXI driver stabbed to death in central
Christchurch had fled persecution in Afghanistan and survived near
disaster at sea to build a better life for his wife and five
children in New Zealand.
Abdulrahman Ikhtiari, 39 was found lying near his taxi with a
single stab wound to his chest about 1am yesterday. Police and
ambulance staff tried frantically to save him but he died at the
scene.
It is just the second time a taxi driver has been murdered on the
job in the past 10 years in New Zealand. In 1998, 66-year-old taxi
driver Anthony Ellis was kicked in the head and died in a Wellington
alleyway after he ...