At least two persons were killed and five others injured when a vehicle in the security convoy of the former Union minister of state for Home, Hansraj Ahir met with an accident near Jamb on Nagpur-Chandrapur highway, some 100 kms from Nagpur, on Thursday morning.
The security vehicle was reported to have lost control while trying to save a stray monkey before ramming into a truck resulting in immediate deaths of driver Vinod Vitthal Zhade, a state police constable and CRPF jawan, Phaljibhai Patel –both part of former minister’s security detail.
Five others who got injured in the accident were rushed to a private nursing home in Nagpur; three are reported to be critical.
Ahir was travelling in another vehicle and escaped unscathed, said reports.
Ahir, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and a three-time MP from Chandrapur who held the post of Minister of State for Home Affairs lost to Congress’ Suresh Dhanorkar in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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