Tributes paid to 'lovely' young man just graduated from university who died after car crashed into Salford pub

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city Tributes have been paid to a 'lovely' and 'kind' young man who died after a horror crash in Salford.

Farakh Akhtar, 23, was travelling as a passenger in a car which crashed into the Black Friar Pub in the early hours of Sunday, 18 July.

Heroic police officers rescued two men from the vehicle, which caught fire, but the passenger, Mr Akhtar, died a short time later. Read more:Fear and apathy on the streets of horror stabbing The student, from Stretford, had just graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a 2:1 in Sports Management.