Four national lever powerlifters along with two others, including world champion Saksham Yadav, were seriously on the Delhi-Haryana border in the wee hours on Sunday, January 7. The police confirmed that the accident took place at 4 am near Alipur village of Delhi, close to the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana. The victims were travelling on the Delhi-Panipat National Highway-1.
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The four powerlifters died immediately after the accident and the other two were badly injured.
#CORRECTION Four powerlifting players killed & two were injured in a road accident due to fog conditions at Sindhu border in #Delhi and not weightlifting players as reported earlier
— ANI (@ANI) January 7, 2018
According to The Indian Express, DCP (Rohini district) Rajneesh Gupta said the deceased have been identified as Tikamchand alias Tinka (27), Saurabh (18), Yogesh (24), Harish Roy (20).
Family of Powerlifting athlete Tikamchand who died along with 3 other athletes in a road accident in early morning hours nr Delhi’s Sindhu border.Tikamchand’s sister says he had called last night to say he was coming home.In early morning hours we came to know about the accident. pic.twitter.com/PFdJkHzbdO
— ANI (@ANI) January 7, 2018
While the injured identified as Saksham (28) was shifted to Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh and Rohit (23) was taken to LNJP Hospital where his condition is stated to be out of danger.
Delhi: Four powerlifting players killed & two injured in a road accident due to fog conditions at Sindhu border in #Delhi ;Visuals from the spot pic.twitter.com/6Tam7H1UXm
— ANI (@ANI) January 7, 2018
The DCP said,
“The incident came to light after we received information from passerby regarding accident near Singhu Border at around 4.14 am on Sunday. We immediately rushed to the spot and found that one Maruti Swift DZire car bearing number DL 4 CAU 9585 met with an accident near Petrol Pump, while going towards Haryana’s Karnal when they were celebrating Rohit’s birthday. We will ascertain the exact sequence once we will record the statement of both the victims.”
Demise of 4 young power lifting athletes in a road accident has deeply saddened all of us @indiasports. My heartfelt condolences to their families. May God give all of them the strength to bear the loss.https://t.co/N1EoSqSrtp
— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) January 7, 2018
This is not a one-off incident as such incidents are frequent on the highways due to the lack of visibility owing to the winter fog and pollution.
