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Injured weightlifter dies, toll reaches 5 in accident near Delhi-Haryana border
Updated On: 08 January, 2018 08:58 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The death toll in the Sunday morning road accident near Delhi-Haryana border involving six national-level weightlifters climbed to five after one of the two seriously injured sportsmen died at the AIIMS here


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The death toll in the Sunday morning road accident near Delhi-Haryana border involving six national-level weightlifters climbed to five after one of the two seriously injured sportsmen died at the AIIMS here. Saksham Yadav died in the evening at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) trauma centre here. Yadav, 28, had won a gold medal in the 2017 weightlifting championship for India. Another weightlifter, Rohit, 19, is battling for life.
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