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Indian foreign minister "out of danger" after crash

08 Apr 2007 05:56:59 GMT
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KOLKATA, India, April 8 (Reuters) - Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, injured in a car crash, was flown back to the capital on Sunday for further medical treatment but doctors and officials said his injuries were not serious.

"He is out of danger and fine, but since he sustained a head injury requiring multiple stitches, doctors said it would take several days to heal," Mrityunjoy Kumar Singh, a Ministry for External Affairs official, told Reuters in Kolkata.

Mukherjee, 71, the number two in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, was injured when his car crashed head-on with a truck in West Bengal state late on Saturday as he returned to its capital, Kolkata, from a neighbouring district.

With a bandage wrapped around his head, Mukherjee raised an arm to wave at hundreds of people who had gathered in front of a Kolkata hospital and spoke to doctors before being taken by ambulance to a nearby military airfield, TV pictures showed.

He was expected to remain in hospital under observation after arriving in New Delhi aboard a special Indian Air Force plane.

"He is conscious and his blood pressure was normal when he left for New Delhi," Parimal Tripathi, a Kolkata neurosurgeon who treated Mukherjee, said.

The veteran politician, a senior member of India's ruling Congress party, was among four people injured in the crash.

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