SINGAPORE - The newlywed Singaporean couple who died in the New Zealand highway crash last week had made many plans for their life together.They would have moved into their new four-room HDB flat in Sengkang next year and the pitter-patter of tiny feet in their new matrimonial home was pretty much also on their minds.
- Those dreams lay shattered last Friday, when Mr Mohamed Najibullah Suhaimi and Ms Raihana Mohd Rashid died after the car they were travelling in collided with a campervan on State Highway 2 near Mangatawhiri, south of Auckland.
- The crash occurred at around 1.20pm local time, on one of the country's deadliest stretches of road - 30 deaths have been reported there since 2001.
- Ms Raihana's elder brother, Mr Muhd Ridhwan Mohd Rashid, 27, a site supervisor, told my paper yesterday: "They were planning a lot. They were planning to get a flat, trying to settle down."
- Mr Najibullah's elder sister, Ms Sabah-zia Mohd Suhaimi, 38, told my paper that he adored children and the couple were planning to have kids.
- Mr Najibullah, 26, a lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces, and Ms Raihana, 25, a staff nurse at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, had left for New Zealand last Monday and originally planned to return yesterday.
- The couple were supposed to go back to the bride's family in Tampines where they will live while they waited for their new flat, built under the Design, Build and Sell Scheme.
- The high-school sweethearts met in Junyuan Secondary School in Tampines, but started dating only two years ago, said Ms Sabah-zia.
Little would their family members know that the wedding dinner would be the last time the couple would have a meal with them.
Mr Najibullah was the youngest of three children while Ms Raihana was the second of five children, in their respective families.
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