Solomon Tefera, the Eritrean who died after a car crash early on Monday, was on the verge of moving to the US with his American fiancée and their one-year-old daughter.

After almost a decade in Malta, the 33-year-old was due to have a medical the day after he died as part of the process that would see him being relocated as a refugee.

Instead, his fiancée, Lisa Senecal, was making plans for his funeral.

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