Prominent Auckland businessman has died in Fiji after a tragic accident over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Shamsher Ali of Ali’s Garage in Otahuhu in his 60s was\u00a0driving along Paipai Road when it is alleged he lost control of his vehicle, causing it to veer off the road and landed in a creek.<\/p>\n
According to Fiji police Ali and a passenger, a man in his 70s, were rushed to the Lautoka Hospital where he was unfortunately pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The passenger remains admitted in hospital.<\/p>\n
Police said a post mortem will be conducted to ascertain the cause of death as investigations continue and he is expected to be burried\u00a0 in Fiji after police clearance,<\/p>\n
As per Ali’s Auckland friends he arrived in Fiji on Saturday and was distributing food parcels to poor and needy people after end of the holy month of Ramadhan and his family has also arrived in Fiji for his funeral which will take place after post mortem.<\/p>\n
Radio Apna News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prominent Auckland businessman has died in Fiji after a tragic accident over the weekend. Shamsher Ali of Ali’s Garage in Otahuhu in his 60s was\u00a0driving along Paipai Road when it is alleged he lost control of his vehicle, causing it to veer off the road and landed in a creek. According to Fiji police Ali […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13215,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}