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A trio of baseball bat-wielding men gagged, dragged and beat a pizza shop employee unconscious in a back alley in a rural Canterbury town on Friday evening.
The victim, “a devoted family man”, was attacked while putting rubbish out at the end of his shift at Big Bites Pizza on Carters Rd, Amberley, about 40km north of Christchurch.
Pizzeria owner Narinder Warraich told the Herald the man only arrived in New Zealand four months ago from India, where his wife and 6-year-old son remain and rely on remittance payments.
A social media post by the store said, “This senseless attack has left [his family] in distress and uncertainty.”
Warriach said he had a “detailed chat” with the man, named Singh, about what happened and there was no clear motive.
“Someone came from behind him and hit him on his head with a baseball [bat].