New Delhi: In a tragic incident, India’s double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker’s maternal grandmother and maternal uncle died in a horrific road accident on Sunday, January 19. Bhaker’s uncle and grandmother were travelling on a scooter and the vehicle met with an accident with a car at the Mahendragarh Bypass Road in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri.
It was reportedly a Brezza car that collided with the scooter. The impact of the collision was so severe that the car overturned on the road with the scooter getting stuck under it. The international shooter’s maternal grandmother and her uncle both died on the spot. The driver of the car fled away from the spot after the accident before the locals could arrive for help.
Upon receiving the information about the accident, the local police rushed to the spot and took the bodies of the deceased under their custody. The bodies were sent to the civil hospital for post-mortem. The search for the missing car driver is on and the police is investigating the matter.
“We got the information about the accident about a collision of a car and a scooty. Both the persons on the scooty died. We could not find the driver of the car at the spot,” Charkhi Dadri ASI Suresh Kumar told news agency PTI.
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The tragic news has sent shockwaves around the sporting fraternity. Bhaker was awarded the prestigious Major Dhayn Chand Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour earlier this week for her heroics at the Paris Olympics last year. The shooter received the prestigious award from President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
Manu was among 4 athletes to receive the prestigious honour after winning two bronze medals for India in shooting at the Paris Games.
India’s double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker’s maternal grandmother and her maternal uncle died in a tragic road accident on Sunday, January 19. Other Sports Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
