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A member of the notorious Sanghera crime family was one of two men gunned down in East Vancouver Thursday night.

Navdip Singh Sanghera, 32, was wounded in the shooting near East 31st Avenue and Inverness Street about 9:30 p.m.

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He was taken to hospital in critical condition, but died of his injuries.

A second Vancouver resident, 49, was also killed. He was also known to police, who are withholding his name until his family has been notified.

Vancouver police have both the major crime unit and gang squad working on the murders — the city’s fifth and sixth homicides of 2017.

Sanghera and the other man were found inside a vehicle just half a block from Sanghera’s home on Ross Street.

Sanghera, his brother Sav, cousin Boby and uncle Udham were all arrested in 2009 as part of a Vancouver police crackdown on a violent gang war on the city’s south slope between rival groups.

Navdip and Boby Sanghera were convicted on four firearms charges after they were pulled over by police on Nov. 8, 2008, with three loaded, semi-automatic handguns in a secret compartment in their Chrysler.