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Delivery driver death leaves family devastated

SBS News Australia •
November 11, 2026 • 08:04 AM
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A food delivery rider stabbed to death in Melbourne had spent almost a decade away from his family in China, working to give them a better life. His killing has left his family bereft and raised questions about the dangers faced by Australia's delivery workers

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Source : SBS News / Essam Al-Ghalib and SBS Mandarin

Forty-seven-year-old Jianming Feng was stabbed to death in Melbourne's CBD on Friday 6 November while working as a food delivery rider.

For more than nine years, he had lived thousands of kilometres away from his wife, children and elderly parents in China, sending home what he earned

His widow has told SBS Mandarin that her husband spent nothing on himself as he worked to give his family a btter life thousands of kilometres away

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