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Mohammad Azharuddin Managed to Escape From Suv Roll-over
By CricShots - Dec 31, 2020 12:27 pm
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Former Indian skipper, Mohammad Azharuddin managed to escape without getting hurt on Wednesday when an SUV in which he was traveling along with three other people met with an accident in Sawai Madhopur district near Jaipur, as reported by the local police. Three other passengers of the vehicle also managed to escape from the vehicle without getting hurt.

mohammad Azharuddin
Mohammad Azharuddin

However, an employee of an eatery near which the SUV overturned received minor injuries, said SHO Chandrabhan Singh of Soorwal police station. The police officer also informed that the vehicle overturned into the adjoining field when the driver was negotiating the traffic near a roadside eatery and got too close to the edge of the road and the vehicle lost the balance completely.

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Mohammad Azharuddin later tweeted that he was “well and safe by the grace of Allah” after he met with a “minor accident”. “Thank you for all your messages… Thanks for all the concern,” he said in his message.

The accident occurred barely six km from Ranthambore, the SHO said, he also informed that after the accident Azharuddin and his co-passengers along with the eatery staffer were immediately taken to a hospital from where the former cricketer-cum-Lok Sabha MP and his three companions were discharged. The person working in the eatery was also discharged after the first aide, the SHO said, adding Azharuddin later resumed his journey in another vehicle and reached his destination safely.

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The 57-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, who is at present the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s president, had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election on a Congress ticket from Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria defeated him by a large margin of 1.35 lakh votes.